Glenn Reynolds linked a post of mine recently, and I was rather pleasantly surprised at the coolness of the comments. And by “coolness” I mean “OMG, nobody’s flaming anyone?”
I have had my share of links from Glenn, and links from many other sites. Every time one of my Israel posts is linked by Yahoo! News, the Israel-haters come out in droves. And there are some right-leaning sites that send the Birthers this way. But I am very impressed by the quality of comments that got here via the Instalanche. All of the lashing out was about the topic at hand—media bias. There weren’t even any personal attacks on Marc Ambinder.
As of this morning, there were nearly 40 comments, and none were in violation of the no-flames rule.
Glenn, what’s your secret? I’m sure you attact the crazies, but thanks for not sending them my way!