I’m still recovering from a 2 1/2 day power outage and computer trouble, but don’t hesitate to talk amongst yourselves.
Posts Tagged ‘open threads and commenter posts’
Comments policies
Overlawyered is lucky to have a valued set of commenters from whom I often learn things, and it’s been quite a while since our comments section has suffered from any outbreak of bad commenter behavior, flame wars, or that sort of thing. I was reminded of our good fortune since several bloggers have recently added guidelines on comments moderation or otherwise outlined their views. At Volokh Conspiracy, known for its busy and high-quality comments section, Orin Kerr has posted a “Clarified Comments Policy” which with perhaps a slight change here or there could also serve as a comments policy for this site. Meanwhile, the site I helped launch a couple of weeks ago, Secular Right, from almost its first day attracted a high comments volume (more than 2,000 comments in the first two weeks) including more than a few that were contentious or uncivil — not an unexpected consequence when there are sharp disagreements on the topic of religion. After one blowup I noted the following:
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Open thread
We haven’t tried this in a while, so here goes: a thread in which you can nominate news stories, bring up ideas that don’t fit in as reactions to posts, and otherwise talk among yourselves.