Introduction
You are welcome to comment and we hope to create a space where more people participate. We also invite people to submit content.
The comments on the Leucadia blog can be stimulating or a turnoff. It has been the Wild West on the blog. The general tone can sometimes metldown and become unpleasant, even for lurkers. It has effectively kept some people from participating in the dialogue.
JP has experimented over the years with filtering comments and requiring logging in. Neither of us are interested going that route now.
Before I throw out a proposal I should make a few points.
Background
We aren’t the government and the blog is privately controlled space. Readers do not have a constitutional right to post on the Leucadia Blog. The Leucadia blog invites the community to participate and fair access is important to us. If you say something ugly we are not compelled to publish it on our website.
I will fight for your right to publish ugly stuff on your own website, but that is another matter. I invite everyone to join me (and Council Member Barth) in support of Calaware.
Proposal
If you post under your name, or under an established screen name, you can write however ugly you want. If you post anonymously and write something unnecessary, without contributing and are disruptive to the exchange of ideas it won’t be deleted from the blog, but it might be moved from the current thread and placed in side thread.
Boorish trolling, spam, unnecessary personal attacks, or outright racism, sexism, and homophobia unrelated to the topic could also be moved to a side thread.
If you use profanity obnoxiously that could trigger a move. Intelligent or relevant use of profanity is a different story.
Final Notes
Be aware, it turns out that sometimes JP and I don’t read all the comments.
Please don’t say anything bad about my best friends JP and Mike Andreen.
See Also: Commenting is like going to a coffee-shop
UPDATE: You can see that we removed some nasty comments addressed to someone who has different views than the LB. That was good, but moderation failed. We don't have the time to read all the comments and people get really crazy if they think they have been censored. Too much drama over small stuff. Remember, don't feed the trolls.
30 comments:
What a fucking lame post!
What a lame fucking post!
What? that is a fucking lame post!
The blog is very entertaining the way it is. Kevin, why would you want to change JP's blog?
Start your own blogspot if you want a change. I forgot you tried at ETA and no one read it so you are trying to co-opt this blog.
Leave it alone....
Why change?
From early on it was hoped that more people would contribute and the blog would have many voices.
Some people don't want to contribute to the blog because of the ugliness that is sometimes used to derail a conversation.
ETA blog?
That is a different sort of blog that continues to provide its service. Page views are up, not down on the ETA site.
I look forward to the possibility of a real community blog hosted by JP - with Kevin's assist. I'd like to believe there is more than the toxic nonsense that often clog these threads. BTW, the use of the word lame is hurtful to those of us who are not able bodied. Privilege can be so unseeing, unfeeling without any effort at all. Just sayin' . . .
That ls comments was so funny I nearly peed my pants. Definitely not lame. Long live the blog!
Thank you Kevin. The blog should be entertaining, but it would also be nice to learn from one another and bring about change in out community. Perhaps more people would offer constructive comments if they were not so afraid of being called some stupid name. I personally don't have a problem with people "trashing" me, but then again I am used to it. There are others that may be a bit more sensitive than I am at this point in my life. We can all learn from one another and make this an even better community and J.P. and Kevin have provided this forum. I thank both of them.
Early on there were more people contributing on a regular basis, and using screen names. Personal childish attacks by Anons are a turn off. Political satire is legitimate, personal insulting ad hominen attacks are not. Some people don't understand the difference. The quality of exchange has gone downhill, and some posters do not participate because their opinions will be called WRONG and STUPID, or they will be instructed how to place a thumb up into a particular orifice. This type of exchange is worthless and should be moderated.
Everyone should use a screen name. If you are offended by someone commenting on your comment, better to not comment.
I find it sad that JP has allowed his blog to co-opted by Kevin. I find Kevin's additions to this blog to be less than stellar. Sorry Kevin if that hurts your feeling, but too bad. JP, I know you are busy with a business and family and this blog is just a hobby, but leaving it to Kevin was a mistake.
Bonddi your calls for censorship on the blog are repugnant!! Sorry if you're offended, too bad. Either grow thicker skin or read but don't post on this blog.
I find it cowardly that anyone would call for censorship on this blog or any blog.
HawHaw
Nelson,
Use a screen name or be censored?
Nelson is the guy on the Simpsons. I love when anonymous writers call Bond a coward. Haw haw!
“Nelson”,
I do not disagree with your assessment of my posts. They are lame.
I would rather read JP’s posts and I certainly appreciate reading stuff from other Le