{"id":59868,"date":"2016-08-08T07:00:32","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T12:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59868"},"modified":"2016-08-07T09:19:36","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T14:19:36","slug":"policy-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59868","title":{"rendered":"Policy Change"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve run by far the most, er, liberal comment policy among Minnesota bloggers with traffic in my general weight class ever since I started carrying comments in 2002.<\/p>\n

I ask for civility, as a general rule – but don’t\u00a0require\u00a0<\/em>it, or at least not to a pollyanna-ish extent. \u00a0Don’t get too pointlessly inflammatory, and don’t go too far off topic, and we’ll get along just fine.<\/p>\n

Unlike many blogs in my general traffic class, I don’t censor comments, and I don’t block commenters that I find annoying, to say nothing of those that try to challenge me.<\/p>\n

I welcome commenters who disagree with me – indeed, encourage them.\u00a0In the history of this blog, I think I’ve actually\u00a0banned\u00a0<\/em>a grand total of half a dozen commenters – none of them for disagreeing with me, or even being jerks about it.<\/p>\n

However<\/strong>, the comment section has a goal; to\u00a0serve as a forum for discussion<\/em>. \u00a0Which is to say, discussion of the topics I write about<\/em>.<\/p>\n

By extension, this means two things:<\/p>\n