Comments on: Take a Walk on the Blog Side http://xrlq.com/2004/11/16/take-a-walk-on-the-blog-side/ Politische Kommentare mit Snarkenremarken Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:50:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Joe Katzman http://xrlq.com/2004/11/16/take-a-walk-on-the-blog-side/comment-page-1/#comment-8535 Joe Katzman Tue, 23 Nov 2004 06:14:14 +0000 http://xrlq.com/2004/11/16/2031/take-a-walk-on-the-blog-side/#comment-8535 ...And your combined points re: Talkleft got results. The blog has been removed from Winds of Change.NET's blogroll (replaced by J.P. Barlow's blog, and also Samizdata). This kind of behaviour is utterly incompatible with their listing under the "Liberty" designation, or indeed any other serious designation on a serious blogroll. Squishing trolls is one thing. This is something rather more serious, and it's offensive by any decent standard. …And your combined points re: Talkleft got results. The blog has been removed from Winds of Change.NET’s blogroll (replaced by J.P. Barlow’s blog, and also Samizdata).

This kind of behaviour is utterly incompatible with their listing under the “Liberty” designation, or indeed any other serious designation on a serious blogroll. Squishing trolls is one thing. This is something rather more serious, and it’s offensive by any decent standard.

]]> By: Dave Schuler http://xrlq.com/2004/11/16/take-a-walk-on-the-blog-side/comment-page-1/#comment-8307 Dave Schuler Thu, 18 Nov 2004 14:46:36 +0000 http://xrlq.com/2004/11/16/2031/take-a-walk-on-the-blog-side/#comment-8307 <blockquote>our latest resident troll and self-proclaimed Mensa nerd, Conley Gwinn</blockquote> I've known a few of those over the years. My experience has been that Mensa is an organization for people who need to belong to an organization for people to believe that they're intelligent. Of course, YMMV. My favorite Mensa story goes back a number of years to a discussion at the place I was working at the time. My then-boss was bragging about how the chap he had just hired was a member of Mensa in response to which one of the other employees (a blunt, coarse, dese-dem-dose-type ethnic Chicagoan) pulled out his Mensa card.

our latest resident troll and self-proclaimed Mensa nerd, Conley Gwinn

I’ve known a few of those over the years. My experience has been that Mensa is an organization for people who need to belong to an organization for people to believe that they’re intelligent. Of course, YMMV.

My favorite Mensa story goes back a number of years to a discussion at the place I was working at the time. My then-boss was bragging about how the chap he had just hired was a member of Mensa in response to which one of the other employees (a blunt, coarse, dese-dem-dose-type ethnic Chicagoan) pulled out his Mensa card.

]]> By: Conley T. Gwinn http://xrlq.com/2004/11/16/take-a-walk-on-the-blog-side/comment-page-1/#comment-8301 Conley T. Gwinn Wed, 17 Nov 2004 21:31:43 +0000 http://xrlq.com/2004/11/16/2031/take-a-walk-on-the-blog-side/#comment-8301 XRLQ: your retreat into "bad" publicity, together with your persistence in name-calling, clearly symptomatic of that fear of thinking for which I have diagnosed you earlier. I remain ready to assist you whenever you wish to attempt to become whole; or to pursue discourse with you whenever you can rise to rebuttal, refutation, or even advancement of your OWN argument. I am willing, even to remain "your" troll, in the belief that whatever the political agenda(s) of the reader, the contrast of reason with childishness will eventually lead to your outright surrender. (Patterico, I'm not so sure about: seems to desire a flame-war, but hopes to find an easier target?) XRLQ: your retreat into “bad” publicity, together with your persistence in name-calling, clearly symptomatic of that fear of thinking for which I have diagnosed you earlier. I remain ready to assist you whenever you wish to attempt to become whole; or to pursue discourse with you whenever you can rise to rebuttal, refutation, or even advancement of your OWN argument. I am willing, even to remain “your” troll, in the belief that whatever the political agenda(s) of the reader, the contrast of reason with childishness will eventually lead to your outright surrender. (Patterico, I’m not so sure about: seems to desire a flame-war, but hopes to find an easier target?)

]]> By: Conley T. Gwinn http://xrlq.com/2004/11/16/take-a-walk-on-the-blog-side/comment-page-1/#comment-8300 Conley T. Gwinn Wed, 17 Nov 2004 21:22:30 +0000 http://xrlq.com/2004/11/16/2031/take-a-walk-on-the-blog-side/#comment-8300 <strong>"The only bad publicity is NO publicity."</strong> “The only bad publicity is NO publicity.”

]]> By: JohnHays.net http://xrlq.com/2004/11/16/take-a-walk-on-the-blog-side/comment-page-1/#comment-8291 JohnHays.net Wed, 17 Nov 2004 04:38:40 +0000 http://xrlq.com/2004/11/16/2031/take-a-walk-on-the-blog-side/#comment-8291 <strong>Talkleft is involved in a controversy</strong> There is an update to the original post based upon this comment by Patterico's Pontifications Original Post There is a controversy going on in the blogosphere concerning a post by "anniesj" on her weblog that brought a visit to her by Secr... Talkleft is involved in a controversy
There is an update to the original post based upon this comment by Patterico’s Pontifications

Original Post

There is a controversy going on in the blogosphere concerning a post by “anniesj” on her weblog that brought a visit to her by Secr…

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