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Worse than cooties

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I’ve been reading the Freakonomics blog since it started; they have some interesting stuff.  To make sure I stayed current, I subscribed to the blog with Bloglines.  BUT…after reading the comments on this post, I’ve decided that I want nothing to do with the kind of people who read that blog.  Whatever it is they’ve got, I don’t want it jumping off them onto me.  (I wonder if the entire NY Times readership is infested.) As of now, they’re unsubscribed.

Update (7 February).  Lileks expresses his dismay in a wonderful extended snark, and an anonymous commenter gives me a gentle, but bracing, whack on the side of the head.

2 responses to “Worse than cooties”

  1. mgroves Avatar
    mgroves

    I would hope you would reconsider.  Yes, the commenters are pretty much all self-hating Americans (aka NYTimes readers), but Dubner and Levitt are very smart people, who are pretty much apolitcal (Dubner, at least).  Commenters project themselves and their political views onto Freakonomics.  Also, I would point to YouTube as an example of a great site with great content and terrible, terrible comments.
     
    Besides, that’s how I found your blog in the first place: through their comment system.  So not all commenters are worthless.  We can be a beacon of a light, or something.

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  2. Spunky Avatar
    Spunky

    Oh, pfui!  Now you’ve spoiled a perfectly good rant by reminding me that I should periodically pull up my socks and try to be a good example.  I’ll relink to them next time a good link sends me there–since they do link to some nice primary sources.  Thanks, I needed that.

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