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Please give comments on a lessig.org/blog comment policy

By Lessig

So I'd like to propose a policy change for comments at lessig.org/blog. So far, my policy has been to delete comment spam only. I have not deleted any other type of comment, including (especially) comments critical of me or others. I'd like to change that. I'd like to adopt a policy of deleting personal attacks on others. That means any comment that is directed against someone other than me, which is uncivil and attacking something other than the substance of what that person has written as a comment on my blog. This change has been encouraged by many people, but prompted by one case in particular, where there's apparently a stalker who is faking his/her ID (poorly, as I can see they all come from a common set of IP addresses), and attacking someone who left a couple comments on my blog. That's not the sort of place I want here. So I'd propose to ask a trusted volunteer to take requests to remove comments by people who believe they're being uncivilly attacked. If that trusted volunteer agrees, the comment would be removed. Again, and critically important: No comment attacking me or my work would ever be removed. This would only affect comments that were attacking others (1) uncivilly and (2) unrelated to what others have posted as comments on my blog. Thoughts?

Full post as published by Lessig Blog on April 09, 2008 (boomark / email).