{"id":75941,"date":"2020-11-24T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75941"},"modified":"2020-11-23T07:57:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T13:57:16","slug":"housekeeping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75941","title":{"rendered":"Housekeeping"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I really genuinely truly abhor echo chambers. They’re boring – and, more germane, conservatives don’t improve their arguments by vigorously agreeing with each other. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I’ve encouraged dissenters to come to this site, to engage, to leave comments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, from 2006 until about 2017, there was an extremely <\/em>regular commenter who got into a bit of a habit of thread-jacking the comment section. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Initially, I told this person to go start her own blog. Which she did [1]. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it apparently wasn’t enough. She took to thread-jacking in my comment section again – successively ignoring waves of hints: I started with asking nicely. Then I started graying out her comments and annotating them with warnings [2]. Then I started deleting thread-jacks. Finally, I just banned her [3].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shoulda done it four years earlier, to be honest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway – I still abhor echo chambers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I’ve been gently hinting to, well, some <\/em>in the comment section for a while now, and it doesn’t seem to be sinking in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So be advised that I’m going to start deleting thread-jacks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Want to start your own discussions? Blogs are still free to start. Go for it<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s the rule. Enjoy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[1] She kept it running for about 10 logorrheic years before petering out, apparently finding it was harder than it looked. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2] Which, truth be told, I doubt she ever saw. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3] Although the final straw there had nothing to do with this blog’s comment section. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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