Saturday, 4 September 2004

Matthew Yglesias ditches comments

Matthew Yglesias turns off comments on his blog:

I'm sorry it's come to this, especially for folks who've been commenting on this site in a while, but I think the time has come to shut comments down, at least as a default option. We've become totally overwhelmed by trolls who come to write in the spirit of deliberate insult and misreading rather than fairminded debate, and the folks more "on my side" are just left responding in kind.
Will Baude has yet to say "I told you so."
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[Permalink] 1. Gerard Van der Leun wrote @ Sat, 4 Sep 2004, 2:41 pm CDT:

punk kid. nothing more.

 
[Permalink] 2. Hei Lun Chan wrote @ Sat, 4 Sep 2004, 3:08 pm CDT:

So recently Yglesias has call a Senator a fascist, and uses the f-word on a blogger, and he’s complaining about other people being rude?

 
[Permalink] 3. Xrlq wrote @ Sat, 4 Sep 2004, 3:35 pm CDT:

Yglesias can dish it out, but he can’t take it. His only positive contribution to the blogosphere over the past week was to write a post about Arnold Schwarzenegger that was so contrived that it prompted me to coin a new word, “strawtard.”

 
[Permalink] 4. Dan wrote @ Sat, 4 Sep 2004, 7:50 pm CDT:

Thank you, Xrlq, for strawtard. Thank you… and thank the Lord.

 
[Permalink] 5. Tom P. wrote @ Sun, 5 Sep 2004, 6:10 pm CDT:

Heady stuff. I’m into politics. Check out my story about Central Asia that I wrote Saturday (9–4).

Tom P.

 
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