links for 2008-07-31: Comment Conundrum

In Links on 31 July 2008

• Why we delete comments. (And how you can make us stop.)
  Brilliantly written. “If we attempted to pass a law preventing you from saying something terrible, that would be censorship. If you showed up in our living room attempting to say the same thing, we’d have the right to throw you out.”
  (tags: community)
• Jamie’s Comment on Random Mumblings
  Fantastic insights on comment moderation from a practitioner. “Some reporters might get upset that someone says their writing sucks, but that’s tough cookies for them. Fair comments about our job is allowed, unfair remarks about us as human beings is not”
  (tags: comments community newspapers)
• Mister Snitch!: Newspapers comment on commenting and anonymity
  Point-by-point stories to go with my original list. Fantastic.
  (tags: comments community newspapers)

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