I write at BlueOregon. A lot. I take it very seriously, and I try to make sense while pushing buttons. Not the easiest trick, but I'm trying to learn. One thing I do, like almost everyone there, is allow comments. I also try to ignore the comments, because their are some A1 wackjobs trolling their way in. Worse, there are liberals and progressives who are so sure of their own opinions, they end up resorting to name-calling and personal attacks when they don't like the responses they're getting. If I let myself, I can really get dragged into some unpleasant waters. So mostly I (try to) ignore the comments and move on to the next piece.
Steve Duin, it appears, just doesn't care to even allow comments. His blog, which is tiny unless dealing with graphic novels (and I'm a huge fan of the genre, so I appreciate reading what he says about these) doesn't allow for feedback, aka "comments". Which is his prerogative, but, imo, chicken. Especially when you discover he's called you "hysterical" and "disingenuous" as he did me, when dismissing my post in BlueOregon against M46 (which is an attack on free speech, or so I said in agreement with Ursula LeGuin, who ranks higher than Duin in both thought & written word -- to me).
I've posted twice in BO about M46, so I'm not going to do a third, especially when what I'm peeved about is Duin using his very large platform to commend commentors who spent days writing personal attacks on me and others, simply because they cannot promise that passage of M46 won't result in free speech limits (read the damn thing). Tom Civiletti gets hero treatment from Steve Duin; I get silenced.
Near-silence: in the background, if you concentrate, you can hear the cackling of chickens. I think they're Big O Yellows.
The Web whizzes at OregonLive haven't figured out how to allow comments, or how to moderate them, or whatever, so right now all the O blogs are just Web posts.
Once they get it figured out, I'd love to see some dialogue on the Duin posts (and the Canzano posts, and the Carlin posts, and the Levy posts, and apply directly to the forehead etc. etc. etc.).