September 4, 2003
Civility in Discourse
Civility in the Blog World
Complete and continual civility in the kind of open forum that a blog with comments presents is wishful thinking as the trolls will always pop up.
This isn't an issue here...Modulator's comment threads currently are lucky exceed 0 in length. But we all read other blogs and from time to time add our comment to the discussion.
So, as Kevin Drum and Jane Galt point out civility is certainly a goal to reach for and will not only raise the level of discussion but increase the chances of your comment being thoughtfully read.
More discussion of this here and here.
Posted by Steve on September 4, 2003
