Spl@: Why I Hate D.C. blogger unnerved by Web threats

On March 5, 2009, Why I Hate D.C. blogger M@ received the following anonymous comment on one of his blog posts: “you’re going to go down hard, little bitch boi,” it read; “brutal bone crushing pounding of your skull between my boot and the pavement. Hot blood spewing everywhere.”

Even by Internet standards, that’s pretty nasty—illegally so. What could M@ have possibly done to prompt a death threat?
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Slate, which has been rolling out its female-specific content in the form of the XX Factor blog for months, has finally relaunched the feature in full-fledged magazine form. I haven’t fully dived into “DoubleX” yet, but it already registers one improvement on its predecessor: You don’t have to jump over to Slate’s alien message board “The Fray” to write a comment—comment forms now pop up directly beneath the post.

… But thats not all! DoubleX is doing even more to encourage you to fill out a comment form. In an e-mail last month, the magazine’s editors informed loyal readers that they’re “going to start having cocktail meetups and other fun events for our core commenters in New York and D.C.”

So if having your voice heard ain’t enough—drink specials?