"So there you go: an internet troll. That's what they look like."

I thought this was a joke, but it's not. The BBC tracks down some piddling internet troll and confronts him.

"A challenge to our commenters: Just try to out-racist your counterparts over at Ann Althouse’s blog."

See? This is the kind of thing I have to contend with. Web writers who don't like me or don't like whatever side of politics they t...

"Dinosaur-human relations are not, to the best of my knowledge, part of the bailout debate and its partisanship..."

"... otherwise known as the subjects of this thread." Said Freeman Hunt , in that thread yesterday that went awry. Thanks to Palla...

"You are also a paid astrotroller."

A comment on the "Brokaw's bizarre" post that got me wondering. I know what an astrotroll/astrotroller is (and it hasn't ...

It's me and Megan McArdle on Bloggingheads!

Topics: Joe Biden: the exciting/boring choice (06:07) Is Hillary better off if Obama loses? (04:13) Don’t we all aspire to own so many house...

"But these Internet Savages are more like unto Vagabonds, Wastrels, or even common Thieves, enjoying the Benefits of Society, whilst doing no Good."

Surely, you recognize the voice of our ghost commenter, Sir Archy, dead these 250 Years and more . We'd been missing him, and now he...

"Trolling is basically Internet eugenics... I want everyone off the Internet. Bloggers are filth. They need to be destroyed."

"Blogging gives the illusion of participation to a bunch of retards. . . . We need to put these people in the oven!" The New York ...

"You can participate in the other threads and be your zany libertarian self all you want, but you cannot pimp Ron Paul."

Redstate cracks down on Ron Paul supporters. Captain Ed doesn't like it : ... I disagree with Leon's assumption that these Paul sup...

"You don't have money to fund the war or children but you're going to spend it to blow up innocent people..."

"....if we can get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the President's amusemen...

The Blogger's Code of Conduct.

What do you think of this code ? The trouble with a speech code is... well, I hate speech codes! But aside from that general principle, what...

A note on comments.

I have started deleting all the comments of one of our most conspicuous commenters for reasons I am not going to discuss. I ask all of my co...

"Socrates is a real drag, I don't know how in hell he ever got tenure. He makes students feel bad by criticizing them all the time."

Student evaluations for Socrates. (Via A&L Daily .) He pretends like he's teaching them, but he's really ramming his ideas down...

Where've I been?

Hmmm.... I see it's a hot traffic day here on the Althouse blog. I haven't been monitoring things -- not deleting the comment trolls...

Structuring the facts -- isn't that the lawyerly approach?

Here 's an article by law school memoirist Alex Wellen about gaming the U.S. News & World Report ranking system: As part of its met...