By Scott Jacobs, on a guest post by Aaron Worthing (regarding class actions over Apple device location tracking) at Patterico:
How the hell is it that I didn’t have Overlawyered bookmarked?
How, indeed?
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Advice given at the Volokh Conspiracy blog, and good advice here too.
When are they commentary sincerely reacting to posts? When are they mere spam? And how should one draw the line? Dan Filler wonders at Faculty Lounge.
P.S. From UK lawyer-blogger Charon, Q.C. a while back: “Fed up with law firms putting ads in comment section of my blog. I am now editing and re-directing all such to dodgy websites.”
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I’m still recovering from a 2 1/2 day power outage and computer trouble, but don’t hesitate to talk amongst yourselves.
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Overlawyered is lucky to have a valued set of commenters from whom I often learn things, and it’s been quite a while since our comments section has suffered from any outbreak of bad commenter behavior, flame wars, or that sort of thing. I was reminded of our good fortune since several bloggers have recently added guidelines on comments moderation or otherwise outlined their views. At Volokh Conspiracy, known for its busy and high-quality comments section, Orin Kerr has posted a “Clarified Comments Policy” which with perhaps a slight change here or there could also serve as a comments policy for this site. Meanwhile, the site I helped launch a couple of weeks ago, Secular Right, from almost its first day attracted a high comments volume (more than 2,000 comments in the first two weeks) including more than a few that were contentious or uncivil — not an unexpected consequence when there are sharp disagreements on the topic of religion. After one blowup I noted the following:
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We haven’t tried this in a while, so here goes: a thread in which you can nominate news stories, bring up ideas that don’t fit in as reactions to posts, and otherwise talk among yourselves.
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Gone fishin’
by Walter Olson on August 12, 2011
I will be taking a week or so away from the blog to enjoy the summer and will be holding comments until my return. See you soon.
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