The nice thing about running your own blog away from big names...

[fpb]

...is that you can get rid of the people who really poison the atmosphere. I can't imagine how some of the big-name bloggers at the Torygraph or the Spectator put up with the dreadful crew that tends to attach itself to their comments pages.

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[pathology-doc.livejournal.com]

That's the price of fame.

[shezan.livejournal.com]

There is actually a way to ban commenters you can't stand at the Torygraph. It doesn't appear on the console but the code is still embedded.