Glenn Reynolds says weblogs may degenerate into a flamer haven; Jeff Jarvis says that volunteer monitors can deal with the problem. Nope, this is the way to deal with flamers: let them post on their own damn sites. And then let everyone else ignore them. Weblogs are a gigantic interlinked discussion forum, in which it's trivially easy to route around idiots.
One day, everybody will have a weblog, and a place to comment, and indexing systems will track the discussion as it reverberates around the web. In the meantime, we have email. Any good site -- Instapundit, Boing Boing and, increasingly, Gawker -- receives scads of useful tips by email. Automatic publication of reader contributions, in comments, would be nice. Jeff Jarvis says we can rely on volunteers to monitor the content. So here's a challenge: volunteer yourself, and we'll turn on the comments on Gawker.
A challenge for Jeff Jarvis BuzzMachine... by Jeff Jarvis Glenn Reynolds
