tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20945908.post97823605366518298..comments2009-12-09T17:42:53.507-05:00Rule 12 (f)http://www.blogger.com/profile/11074646087163691209noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20945908.post-37686995393853489922009-11-03T12:00:40.676-05:002009-11-03T12:00:40.676-05:00[sic]Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20945908.post-50019304242265639442009-11-03T11:00:11.180-05:002009-11-03T11:00:11.180-05:00http://copyrightsandcampaigns.blogspot.com/2009/11/law-professor-sues-above-law-blog-time.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20945908.post-28945662372161156342009-11-03T00:39:58.718-05:002009-11-03T00:39:58.718-05:00I do not care about the typos at all, but in case you were unaware of the option (and wanted to somewhat avoid the grammar police who have nothing better to do than complain about live blog typos), there are plug-ins for most web browsers that will give a squiggly red line under misspelled words being typed. Something like that might help with posts like this or where you take on the arduous tasks of copying 1980&#39;s LW articles.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20945908.post-51741931790611138472009-11-02T22:55:00.963-05:002009-11-02T22:55:00.963-05:00(1) Because of the cost-sensitivity of the mere creation of these forums, the set of activity deterred by a duty to moderate will be vastly overinclusive.<br /><br />(2) To the extent that anonymity isn&#39;t a problem-- and it really isn&#39;t, especially for sites that make you register through an email address (which can provide a litigant, through subpoena, with weeks and weeks of login IPs to the offender&#39;s email account &amp; a pretty damn high probability of ascertaining a poster&#39;s identity)-- we have a remedy for victims and a way to deter, in a more targeted fashion, offensive speech.<br /><br /><br />More on (1) above:<br /><br />The internet is exceptional. We&#39;ve all heard the meme: the interwebz provides a particularly inexpensive and accessible medium of communication.<br /><br />Most importantly, however, it facilitates modes of speech--like online discussion forums-- where *thousands* of people participate in or learn from conversations that would otherwise never come into fruition.<br /><br />Part of the way the internet does this is through the relative cheapness of hosting a website / running an online discussion forum, which makes it easy to overcome the tremendous coordination and free-rider problems that would plague a market solution to online discussion forums. There are sites with subscription fees and so on, but these are highly imperfect and would still result in a vast underproduction of good posts and solid online discussions.<br /><br />So the *creation* of forums is *extremely* cost-sensitive. A small amount of goodwill (or vanity) is all that&#39;s necessary to overcome the free-rider problem, because the costs of running a site are small. As (aspiring) lawyers who constantly wrestle with / seek to drum up legal solutions to this problem, we really ought to appreciate just how wonderful and convenient this &quot;free rider&quot; solution is.<br /><br />And no one can deny the value of the speech that occurs online. I don&#39;t know anything about free speech doctrine-- but to be clear, I&#39;m talking about value in terms of any increase in well-being, and not simply value of the type recognized as particularly worthy of legal protection (or protection from the law, as it were). <br /><br />There are countless sites about law, medicine, investing, automobiles, home repair, baskets, computers, music, memorabilia collection, pets, gardening, cooking, etc., with hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of members who exchange information, get immediate assistance with problems, learn in a highly efficient manner made possible by the presence of experts, make sense of / digest / process new data that appears in the world on a daily basis, develop a sense of membership commentators once declared a tragic victim of the information age, and simply enjoy posting. <br /><br />The type and extent of these benefits are unique to large and instant topic-specific discussions. And by the by, it would be easy to argue that autoadmit is chock full of valuable threads about admissions process, employment process, humor, random social and legal debates, etc. Even the threads offering bad advice are highly useful as a barometer of conventional wisdom in the utterly warped legal world.<br /><br />This isn&#39;t a bullshit marketplace of ideas argument. To me, it&#39;s just a question of being somewhat attentive to costs and benefits when making law.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20945908.post-75235768122697561492009-11-02T20:50:34.720-05:002009-11-02T20:50:34.720-05:00Duttty to ModerattteJ. Crew Modelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17848347900213030705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20945908.post-67151164145547643522009-11-02T20:16:36.939-05:002009-11-02T20:16:36.939-05:00{JiGsaW}Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20945908.post-67118798980273581132009-11-02T18:41:29.120-05:002009-11-02T18:41:29.120-05:00&quot;There are no women who post on autoadmit, ever&quot; The questioner seems pretty mad.<br /><br />AHizzlasayswhat?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20945908.post-3085721539626580682009-11-02T18:38:24.598-05:002009-11-02T18:38:24.598-05:00Their lives were ruined? If Brittan Heller&#39;s life was ruined then we should all be so lucky: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/fashion/weddings/09heller.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20945908.post-33350136248561218492009-11-02T17:47:15.053-05:002009-11-02T17:47:15.053-05:00&quot;White: No, I have not - and that makes me a better judge . . . because I have no interest.&quot;<br /><br />WOW!! That quote explains a lot of what is wrong with judges, law professors and the realms they control.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com