Over the weekend, a series of 8 inflammatory comments were posted to this website and remained visible to readers for as long as an hour before they were noticed and removed. Efforts to fight comment spam and abuse aren’t unusual or ordinarily newsworthy. These comments, however, were notable because they directly insulted and threatened a Harris County judge who has been assigned to hear a legal complaint filed against Swamplot. The comments appear to have been an attempt to fool readers unfamiliar with this site into believing that the threats and insults were coming from particular Swamplot readers who comment here frequently, or from people familiar to our editorial staff. To be clear: The comments did not come from anyone associated with this site — or sympathetic to it.
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