Update, 12/11/2024: And comments are off again. Weren’t worth the hassle.
It’s quite possible that I’ve lost my senses, but I’ve decided, on a provisional basis, to allow people to post comments on the site. With one caveat: I may delete them.
That’s right. Instead of spending way too much of my shrinking amount of free time responding to each and every post, with supporting quotes in the original Greek, I’m just going to delete them. If you want to bellyache about your right to free speech, that’s fine; but this is my blog, which means it’s all about the freedom of my speech. Get your own blog if you want to rant unedited.
Just so you know, I will likely delete the following things, so if you post them, don’t expect them to stick around long.
- Smartass one-liners. Any responses, witticisms, comments, or critiques that I don’t really find substantive. If you’re gonna post, have something to say.
- Nut mail. And by “nut mail” I mean “people who don’t agree with me, but can’t disagree respectfully, or make any sort of sense.” It is my blog, after all.
- Non sequiturs. For those of you who don’t know Latin, comments which we might call “random,” and don’t have anything to do with any blog entry I might have written.
- Responses to things I have put on your blog. The comments aren’t meant for you to comment about your blog, they’re to comment about my blog. It’s about me, remember? Me me me me me me me.
- Responses that are longer than my posts. If you have that much to say, stick it on your own blog.
- Complaints that I deleted something. That’s annoying.
- Anything I find annoying.
- Anything I bloody well feel like deleting. That should cover it.
Got the idea? Good. Get to commenting. I’ll get to deleting.