Kesher Talk

Another milestone. Kesher Talk has just banned its first troll. For a blog with comments, this is something of a rite of passage. You attract enough visitors, eventually people start hanging around who just want to generate a lot of outrage and don't care how they do it. Then you pay out the rope for awhile, and eventually you decide you've had enough.

The troll in question was not banned because particular political beliefs, nor because he/she repeatedly insulted the writers of this blog. The troll was banned because he/she repeatedly misrepresented what someone else had said, often by using selective quotes. In other words, the troll didn't fight fair. (Kind of like Aziz Poonawalla and tacitus, but as kings of their own blogs they get to write the rules there.)

If you fight fair, you can say anything you want in the comments on this blog.

posted by Judith @ 4/28/2003 01:13:07 PM