Moving Day...
Attack on Website
Website Appears to Be Under Attack...
Moderating Online Conversations
A Policy on Politeness, on Acceptable Comments, and on Other Matters
March 10, 2005
Moving Day...
Now that internet mountain man Chuq van Rospach and Crooked Timber have abandoned Movable Type, it seems to me that there is no reason why I should be running my own weblog on my own office computer. So it's time for me, too, to pull up stakes and move. Let's try TypePad first and see how it does... I'll keep the old front page at http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/index_a.html for a while......Posted by DeLong at 06:25 PM | Comments (4) | TrackBack
February 12, 2005
Attack on Website
Things seem to be back to normal. I haven't figured whether it was an incompetent attempt to load the website with trackback spam, or something more......Posted by DeLong at 02:17 PM | Comments (2)
February 11, 2005
Website Appears to Be Under Attack...
More later......Posted by DeLong at 11:10 PM | Comments (10)
January 29, 2005
Moderating Online Conversations
Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal: A Weblog: Some Things Teresa Nielsen Hayden Knows About Moderating Conversations in Virtual Space: There appear to be thirteen of them: 1. There can be no ongoing discourse without some degree of moderation, if only to kill off the hardcore trolls. It takes rather more moderation than that to create a complex, nuanced, civil discourse.... 2. Once you have a well-established online conversation space, with enough regulars to explain the local mores to newcomers, they’ll do a lot of the policing themselves. 3. You own the space. You host the conversation. You don’t own the community....Posted by DeLong at 11:35 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
January 23, 2005
A Policy on Politeness, on Acceptable Comments, and on Other Matters
This is not usenet. Be polite--to me, and to other commenters. Or your comments may be gone, if I judge that you are not contributing to the discussion. This is particularly likely to be true if you (a) lack a track record of informed, interesting, and polite contributions and (b) don't give me a valid email address I can use to talk to you about how to contribute. The decision of the judge is final....Posted by DeLong at 01:02 PM | Comments (2) | TrackBack