A Little Note About Comments

There's a nasty little flame war raging in the comments thread under one of my posts here and someone suggested that I "need to" do something to control what folks say in my comments section. Let me tell ya something, I intend to do no such thing. I have a standard policy of removing obvious trolls unless my readers are having fun abusing them, but when people who I know turn up, I pretty much let them say whatever they please. However, if you show up in the comments section and are nasty to everybody, I don't care who you are, the people you harass are more than welcome to hand your ass to you in as ,many broken pieces as they see fit. I don't care. Especially if the people you are picking fights with happen to agree with me.
MY BLOG, not yours.

I'm a big fan of Wirecutter's blog, Knuckledraggin my life away and he has a comment policy that I really can identify with. Here's a portion of it:

This blog is not a forum. I have my views and I ain't changing them.
Read that again. This blog is not a forum. I'm not interested in your fucking arguments and you damned sure ain't going to change my mind with a comment.

It doesn't cost any money to start a blog and tons of people already have them. If you find my posts so upsetting to you that you feel the need to fill my comments section with disparaging comments and argue with everyone who posts in support of the opinions expressed at my blog, then why don't you go and blog about it? Instead of having a flame war with my readers, have a blog war with me. Observe Stacy McCain's Rule 4 and it will drive traffic to both of our blogs and also you won't have to worry about the natives who I let have free reign in my comments section here. You can moderate comments at your own blog so my big ole meanie-pants readers can't hurt you.

And don't fucking follow me to other people's blog posts elsewhere to complain about my readers in threads I comment to which are completely unrelated to stuff here; that's just childish. Seriously. All you will accomplish is that you'll piss me off and if you think the natives here are bad, well you really won't like what comes out of me if you push too hard.


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