What is the point in declaring bankruptcy
Modern business runs on the accessibility of people, people to make deals, people to talk to, people to buy and sell stuff to. Jason Calacanis joins the ranks of folks trying to shut down the idea of keeping up with modern communications, in particular the ability of people to answer back on his blog.
We have only answered one article on his blog, the link baiting exercise, and that was well worth the effort that we put into it, you can read our link bait right here.
In the mean time, it really seems that at some point people tinker with the idea of shutting down e-mail, blog comments, or other stuff, e-mail because of a time commitment, blog comments because the comments get nasty, evil, or just plain old vile.
While the time commitment for e-mail is one thing that people either can or can not give out to answer bits of fluff from the internet. The way to do a lot of the time commitment is to keep things public in the public realm, like our e-mail suggest@techwag.com then keeping our private friends and family e-mail private, no one knows it but our friends and family. Although it is trivial to find those addresses that are out there.
As for blog comments, yes, people are amazing, but then that is what black listing is all about, or marking something as spam and just letting it all go. People are going to be evil, and nasty, it all depends on what they are thinking at the time they wrote stuff. It is not about you, it is all about them, people who comment believe that they have something valid to offer. We may or may not agree, and that is where our ability to do at least do some form of discrimination (sure call it censorship, but if it is a comment filled with “fist my ass” material, it does not fit what we are doing here, it will be blocked) when it comes to comments.
Everyone has some kind of comment to make, not everyone has a high level of functioning when it comes to blog comments. Spam filters and black listing are wonderful things.
Rather than declare bankruptcy, rather than bail out and call it a day, use the tools at hand and really use them to enforce what ever standard you want to have for your blog, forum or web site.
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