Comments on: I’ll be Over Here, Thanks

By: robohara

robohara — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:17:53 +0000

Jason, I have to disagree with you on this one. As a blog owner, I do think I have the right to remove certain comments. Newspapers are not obligated to print every letter to the editor, nor are news programs required to air every weird off-the-wall comment that comes their way.

Unfortunately the world is not black and white. We all block or remove some comments from our blogs, starting with spam. If spam’s okay to remove, what else is? I can tell you personally I have deleted vulgar/pornographic comments about my kids and a few other non-topical comments.

I do agree that deleting someone’s comment simply because they did not agree with you is in poor taste, the electronic equivalent of playing God. If someone did that to me, it would be the last time I commented on their blog. Let them play God by themselves.

By: Mirka

Mirka — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:04:26 +0000

Testing, testing, testing.

I’m having no luck posting comments from Chrome. I consider this a kind of censorship.

By: James

James — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:47:22 +0000

A different view on commenting. It's a pity trackback failed thanks to spam, and Google's "links to this post" is Blogger only, as they provide a happy medium - still on your site, but visible on the original post. Also on commenting. Finally, previewing then posting hits your time-based spam filter.

By: Larry Hosken

Larry Hosken — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:07:08 +0000

Someone made a comment in response to my website. Specifically, they commented that I was a dickhead. I left that comment up on my site. And thus, for a while, I was the top Google hit for [dickhead]. I felt honored, like the whole internet had gathered together and given me a shiny trophy.

By: Ryan Russell

Ryan Russell — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:44:17 +0000

Allow me to test if I have correctly parsed your prose. Lint trap indeed.

Are you *not* suggesting that the correct response is to link to their blather from your own vitriolic response on your own, higher-trafficked blog? And encouraging your own set of blog buddies to echo your sentiments? Are you shying away from the blog equivalent of an East Coast/West Coast rap war? Not allowing your Mase to backlink you?

If that is *not* what you are suggesting, I demand that you rethink your position, sir.

By: Rubes

Rubes — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:38:51 +0000

I had one of those great feelings in my gut as I started to read this just two days after you posted a comment on my blog. Not quite a china-rattling comment, maybe more of a fist-pounder.

By: Angie

Angie — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:40:43 +0000

I prefer civil discourse, with my definition of “civil” being something along the lines of, “I disagree with you because [data], [data], [chain of logic].” I have no problem with this approach, and enjoy getting into substantial conversations with people, whether they agree with me or not. I’ve even been known to change my mind occasionally, when presented with new data or a different way of looking at something. Weird, I know.

No one’s ever commented on one of my posts with the opposite (Dear Illiterate Bitch: this post clearly proves that you’re a total moron, so go back to your dolls and leave the blogging to the people who can count to eleven without taking off their shoes. Signed, Snarky Fuckwad.) but I’ve seen it in other places. If anyone ever did leave such a comment to one of my posts, I’d probably leave it right where it was for purposes of pointing and laughing, ’cause seriously, people who comment like that are making idiots of themselves and nobody else.

Angie

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:30:31 +0000

“Splayed out on the tartan”??