I've banned IP address 62.213.67.122 from posting to discourse.net after deleting a handful of Dadaist-seeming comments (e.g. “'Of course' is the cyanide of the mind”) none of which were objectionable in themselves, but all of which linked the plausible author names to sex sites. If this banning action causes any legit users pain, I hope they send me email so I can reconsider. I don't think the ban applies to email, just posting.
Recent Bluessky Posts- Jotwell Worklaw: Joseph Slater, Defending Civil Service Rules from Existential Attacks, JOTWELL (February 13, 2026) (reviewing Catherine L. Fisk, Democracy and a Nonpartisan Civil Service, 67 Ariz. L. Rev. 629 (2025)), worklaw.jotwell.com/defending-ci.... February 13, 2026 Jotwell
- Impeach their boss. That's what they have in common. February 12, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Not The Onion? February 12, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Jotwell Tax: Charlene D. Luke, Anatomy of a Shakedown: The Carried Interest Case, JOTWELL (February 12, 2026) (reviewing Edward J. McCaffery & Darryll K. Jones, The Curiouser and Curiouser Case of Carried Interests, 66 Ariz. L. Rev. 357 (2024)), tax.jotwell.com/anatomy-of-a.... February 12, 2026 Jotwell
- Every word of this is a lie. And any news organization that quotes this without saying as much is failing its audience. February 12, 2026 Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News
That guy is spamming my blog from exactly the same IP address. I was too lazy to ban that address until now, since I assumed that he would change his IP address frequently and banning one IP number would not achieve anything. Maybe I’ll reconsider when I find his next series of spam comments with still the same address.
You can get rid of comment spam forever by installing MT-Blacklist. Here’s a link:
http://rhetorica.net/blogspam.htm
Been there, done that. Installed it a long time ago. These either pre-dated it, or got through it…