Does anyone here remember WinerWatch? The tool Mark Pilgrim wrote, that monitored changes to blog posts by (the notoriously trollish) Dave Winer? It caused a big stir in the blogosphere in 2003, and Mark took it down very quickly after public blowback. I always thought it was pretty cool and he should have left it up.
What an interesting glimpse into the blogosphere. That post in particular is interesting, given the much larger discussions that followed it on essentially the same topic: how to decide what people can and can not say when there are those who ruin the commons. I'm thinking of Twitter/X's Community Notes feature and the many reputation mechanisms people put in place, and the subsequent griping of community politics that arise from those mechanisms...
One of the very few surviving posts on the matter: https://burningbird.net/forget-the-law-forget-the-technology...