Lawfare Comments and Discussions on Facebook

Here at Lawfare, we don't take comments. Being very old-fashioned, we started this blog to express our opinions to a group of readers, not to create a bulletin board for those readers. We have gotten any number of complaints about this admittedly antediluvian policy. Some of them come in a direct form, something like: "I enjoy Lawfare; my one complaint is that you should take comments." Sometimes, it's a little more passive-aggressive. A reader began an angry missive to me the other day by noting that he was sending it by email since we didn't take comments--the implication being that he would have posted the note for the rest of the world if only Bobby, Jack and I hadn't been so churlish as to decline to design our blog to facilitate that. Lawfare, I'm afraid to inform the throng of people just itching to leave their thoughts, is going to remain a comment-free zone. That said, we have a Facebook page that receives a feed of our posts, each of which hungrily and anxiously awaits precisely the comments that you cannot leave here. It also has a space for discussion threads. Over the coming weeks, we will seed a few discussions there. I've even added a link to our right-hand column so that the impulsive commenter can just click and comment. Here's one caution, though. Please remember that, while I do not intend to edit the material on the Facebook page, Lawfare is all about civility. We reserve the right to brutally repress--without any notice or semblance of due process--any posts that we, in our arbitrary and capricious judgments, regard as in any way inappropriate.