Death Threats, Intimidation, and Blogging

I hate this things. I wonder how effectively a Bayesian filter could identify hate-comments as spam.<p>Today Julia Allison wrote this: <a href="http://itsmejulia.com/post/28132498" rel="nofollow">http://itsmejulia.com/post/28132498</a>

Ultimately, people have to balance costs and benefits, even when the costs are death threats and the like. Ann Coulter probably gets abused online more than any other woman, but then she make 10K+ per speaking engagement.

I wrote this a while ago:<p><a href="http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/top-story-of-2007-kathy-sierra/" rel="nofollow">http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/top-story-of-2007-...</a>

Why don't they just close the comments? It seems a lot easier to do like Steve Pavlina, that only allows trackbacks, not comments.

I really miss Kathy Sierra. Creating Passionate Users is the best blog I've ever read.

1) They ignore you.<p>2) They laugh at you.<p>3) They <i>fight</i> you.<p>4) You win.<p>With apologies to Ghandi, don't give up at #3.