“Ugh. Don't block thoughtful comments on your blog by instantly putting them into ‘moderation’. It assumes all behavior is criminal first. We definitely need better tools for managing blog comments, but email would have never taken off if every email was assumed to be spam first.”

“People will post about their idle curiosities on their personal blog (‘Why does x happen when I do y?’) and instead of seeing friendly answers I would expect many years ago, I’ll often see someone early on read into the question and assume all sorts of accusations (‘well, maybe it's because you are a, b, and c, and everyone knows it!’) and watch most followup comments start from there and go into darker directions.”

another portrait of the blogger unlike the one familiar to me; Curtis labels the best behaviors of bloggers I've seen with the word “journalism”