As someone who lauded Marc Andreessen’s decision to start blogging, I’ve got to follow up his decision to block comments with an expression of my disappointment. Marc, your decision sucks.
You didn’t think that someone as high profile as you wasn’t going to get a lot of traffic and a lot of comments?
Even if some of it is execrable pap, as a blogger you have a responsibility to let it through and to keep comments enabled - so long as they’re not not defamatory or plain offensive. Have a comment policy, for heaven’s sake! Only allow registered or previously approved commenters to get through without being filtered by you (which is my approach).
Marc, you need to grow some cojones on this issue and turn it all back on. If you want to blog, take responsibility for everything that comes with it.
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