Cafe Hayek Blog Closes Comments Section

As y'all know, I exercise a pretty light hand on the comments section.  That's a tough choice.  I could probably have a more civil comments section if I were more willing to delete nasty comments and ban trolls.

I’m in Munich, for the DLD conference, where Ben Horowitz took the opportunity to introduce the Rap Genius guys to the European digital-media crowd. But it’s actually Horowitz’s partner, Marc Andreessen, who has the best explanation of what the investment is all about:

I know there’s continued frustration with the technical problems in the comments section. It’s a frustration I share. The bad news is that in the short-term it’s likely to get worse rather than better—Ryan’s gone now so there’s nobody to help me with rescuing comments that are improperly trapped in the spam filter. The good news is that a solution is at hand, and the CAP/AF tech team will be upgrading the software backend we use and the problems will be resolved.

Bob Lawless at Credit Slips says what I was going to say: Comments, Spam, Loyal Readers, and False Positives: ...

NPR had a segment today on Nobel economist Hayek, with some commentary from Cafe Hayek's Don Boudreaux.

AUTHORS tend to like "best of" lists that rank publications in various categories. If your site makes the list, you feel grand. If it doesn't, well, they're clearly using some bizarre criteria no one cares about, and anyway someone else is always publishing some other set of rankings some of which include you which obviously means they're the correct ones.

By Ryan McNeely In case you missed Matt’s post from earlier this morning, we’ve had issues with spambots and need to manually approve one comment from each commenter before everything gets back to normal (go ahead and comment in this post if you haven’t done so already).  A couple notes of clarification: