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Re: A note on my colleagues

Big Pimpin — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:16:06 -0000

Deleted for ad hominem.

Re: A note on my colleagues

First Tragedy, Then Comedy — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:00:13 -0000

It shows class however, to restrict abuse of Ross, given his affinity/friendship/cribbing from Steve Sailer, someone you called an 'unsavvy racist'.

Not sure he would return the compliment.

Re: A note on my colleagues

First Tragedy, Then Comedy — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:56:48 -0000

Andrew has never had comments, so it's a bit different to Marc and Ross, who got battered when they posted nonsense - Ross especially so was getting crushed just before he closed them down.

And it's coming up now specifically because of Palin hugely polarizing them - though to be honest, it's been an event long coming.

Re: A note on my colleagues

JC — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:51:34 -0000

"they aren't off-limit per se".

Actually, yes, those type of comments SHOULD be off-limits per se, unless exactly addressing an issue YOU raised in a post.

If people want to complain about other bloggers, they can set up a blog about it, elsewhere. Otherwise, you accept the strictures as offered by that particular blogger.

Of course, I agree with a lot of it - when Ross D. made goof errors, and he got reamed in the comments for it, he quickly shut down his comments. Seemed a lack of confidence to me.

Still, his choice, Atlantics' choice.

Re: A note on my colleagues

Adam — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:40:01 -0000

Ross and Marc both used to have comments. What happened was, given the tilt of the readership here, they both got so much crap in comments from people vehemently disagreeing that they closed them down rather than try to police them.

Andrew actually had his readers vote sometime early this year about whether to allow comments, and it was 60/40 against.

What it boils down to I think is, this election really matters to a lot of people here, most of whom are big Obama supporters (me included). Stuff that's viewed as not fair to him is going to get slammed by the regular readers and invaded and trolled by the roving gang of you-know-whos.