I enjoy the blog Left2Right, however, one of the bloggers, Gerald Dworkin, usually doesn't enable comments on his posts. Thus, I've created this blog whose only purpose is to provide a comment forum for each of his posts. Each of Dworkin's posts will have a link, and a few sentences, preceded by a header that's appropriate for a trackback entry.
By the way, I am not planning on moderating these comments except perhaps to delete particularly obscene ones or obvious spam.
7 comments:
this is a commenting test
HAHAHAHA. Good idea. But really, Dworkin is so far behind the blogosphere on this issue, what is there to say?
--Mona--(another L2R reader/commenter who is often frustrated by Dworkin's no comments policy)
I'm assuming Dworkin either: (a) doesn't want to take the time to moderate the comments to his posts and/or (b) doesn't want to give the impression that he's going to read and respond to comments to his posts. Moving comments from Left2Right to here solves both of those problems. I think his posts are interesting and commentable.
I hope to be a bit more responsive and provide the trackback link quickly to his future posts.
His posts are often interesting, but the "big blogs" and message boards all over the 'net have done the Rathergate/ Thornburgh report, in great detail, quite some time ago. It just doesn't seem timely, to my mind. YMMV.
--Mona--
What exactly is so outrageous about posting on a blog without enabling comments? I understand that some have a preference that comments be enabled, but what's the basis for outrage or other moral censure when an author does not satisfy that preference?
Ted H.
Ted H. wrote: " What exactly is so outrageous about posting on a blog without enabling comments?"
I don't know about outrage. I was thinking more somewhere between inconvenient and annoying since people want to discuss Left2Right posts (which is definitely a compliment to the posters for providing such stimulating material). However, I can understand a posters hesitation to enable comments if he/she just doesn't want to deal with them, for whatever reason.
By the way, while David Velleman's comment in Left2Right's March housekeeping isn't exactly an endorsement of the comment forums provided by this site, it does at least indicate he doesn't hate the idea.
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