Comments on: Bloggers and Real Life

By: The Jawa Report

The Jawa Report — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 19:45:05 +0000

Assorted Linky Linky....

Glenn Reynolds has vowed to stay offline the entire week of his vacation. Michael Totten, Ann Althouse, Brannon Denning and Megan McArdle are filling in for him.Michael Totten Via Instapundit: SORRY FOR THE GLOOM: I know you don't want to......

By: politicalpartypoop.com » Blog Archive » Bloggers, Comments, Hmmm Is “blog civility” an oxymoron?

Mon, 31 Jul 2006 19:46:58 +0000

[...] Found the two entries while blog surfing, I have a thing or two to say below: By James Joyner - Outside the Beltway Wizbang’s Paul has hung it up, I think for good this time, saying “It just ain’t fun anymore.” The last straw was a recent flamewar he got into with Ace but he’s been tired of the trevails of blogging for quite some time. Coincidentally, his colleague, Jay Tea, is taking a hiatus having just helped a friend get through his father’s dying days. [...]

By: Stubborn Facts

Stubborn Facts — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 19:17:35 +0000

Comments, Comments, Comments...

Joe Gandelman at The Moderate Voice comments on comments about comments by James Joyner at Outside the Beltway. Stubborn Facts prefers to avoid descending into the abyss of overly self-referential blog-world events. Postings on blog scandals involving ...

By: Gibbie's Bioscience World

Gibbie's Bioscience World — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:46:04 +0000

Blogger burnout...

Outside the beltway looks at the phenomina. It happens, very commonly; you start a blog, and stop it b/c of reason x y and z. I will go on hiatus occassionally and......

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:43:31 +0000

Another solution to burnout: No comments. My blog is what you would call low-traffic, which is fine by me. But then i don't have to deal with fanatical net people who love to argue and insult and spew vile filth.

By: Doug Karr

Doug Karr — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 09:07:45 +0000

A blog entry should be the ignition to start a conversation. If you merely wish to sway people in your opinion, I can see getting burned out. However, if you're truly interested in people's reactions to your thoughts, I'm not sure that you will ever burnout.

Regards,
Doug

By: Right Wing News

Right Wing News — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 07:06:54 +0000

Bloggers: Reign With An Iron Fist In The Comments Sections...

Over at Outside the Beltway talks about his comments section: "My least favorite part of the blog job, though, is......

By: The Moderate Voice

The Moderate Voice — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 06:00:18 +0000

A Comment On Comments From James Joyner...

Outside the Beltway's James Joyner writes about blogger burnout and writes this about comments:My least favorite part of the “blog job,” though, is ......

By: Steve White

Steve White — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 02:59:33 +0000

I'm a moderator at Rantburg. We enforce a code in our comments and while we've lost a few regulars we rather liked, in the end it's helped to preserve what we are (a news gathering blog on the WoT). I frequent some sites, left and right, that apparently have no code of conduct at all for their comments. You wonder, after a while, what all the angriest, vilest commenters do in their day jobs. Has to be something. My humble suggestion: make clear what the code of conduct for comments is and enforce it. If you're getting enough site visits and comments such that it's more work than one person can do, bring in a second person. That's what we did at Rantburg, and at least there, it's worked. Good luck.

By: Anderson

Anderson — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 02:24:55 +0000

Comments that contain personal attacks about the post author or other commenters will be deleted. Thanks for the reminder; I suspect I've violated this rule myself lately, though I suppose I could fall back on the "but he did it first!" argument that's been working so well for Israel lately ... on second thought, maybe not.

By: Steve Verdon

Steve Verdon — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 00:30:29 +0000

So Paul has thrown in the towel...I couldn't care less. One less scientifically ignorant blogger out there.

By: Jim Treacher

Jim Treacher — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 21:50:20 +0000

Also, if one of my comments gets deleted at a blog, I never read it again.

I wonder how they deal with the sense of loss.

By: Dodd

Dodd — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 19:05:15 +0000

The burnout hit me after the 2004 election. I poked along out of a sense that I kinda had to for several more months, but when I did finally pull the trigger on my site after 4 1/2 years I didn't miss it nearly as much as I thought I would.

By: Bill Quick

Bill Quick — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 18:57:21 +0000

James, I'm coming up on my fifth blogging anniversary, and I started out with the idea that pretty much anything beyond out and out insult would be okay in my comments.

I've slowly changed, and I now ruthlessly enforce my own idiosyncratic code of conduct in comments. Sure, I make a few people mad, usually people whose opinions I don't give a damn about anyway. But on the whole, I enjoy my blog - and so, I think, do my readers - a lot more when neither of us have to wade through assorted species of crap in order to find the good stuff.

I enjoy blogging, and I'm not going to let a few losers destroy my pleasure it it.

By: don surber

don surber — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 18:38:10 +0000

Attack the post, not the poster