Death Threats, Intimidation, and Blogging

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12 points·juanpablo··8 comments

I hate this things. I wonder how effectively a Bayesian filter could identify hate-comments as spam.

Today Julia Allison wrote this: http://itsmejulia.com/post/28132498

Ultimately, people have to balance costs and benefits, even when the costs are death threats and the like. Ann Coulter probably gets abused online more than any other woman, but then she make 10K+ per speaking engagement.

I wrote this a while ago:

http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/top-story-of-2007-...

Why don't they just close the comments? It seems a lot easier to do like Steve Pavlina, that only allows trackbacks, not comments.

I agree. Seth Godin doesn't allow comments because he doesn't want to find himself writing in anticipation of the comments.

I think it should become much more common to have broadcast-only type blogs. I'll take a one-way stream of someone's ideas over losing out entirely any day.

Sometimes isn't enough: the threats to Kathy were made (anonymously) in other blogs. There is also an increasingly trend to blog rumors, gossips and "opinions" about people who are not celebrities (Valleywag, Gawker, etc.).

I really miss Kathy Sierra. Creating Passionate Users is the best blog I've ever read.

1) They ignore you.

2) They laugh at you.

3) They fight you.

4) You win.

With apologies to Ghandi, don't give up at #3.

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