It’s been a few years since I’ve done one of these. It’s probably high time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why don’t you manage your comment section more thoroughly?<\/strong> …and, call me pollyannaish, but I wonder why I should have <\/em>to? And I know, I know – we’re all grownups, but we’re really not <\/em>all grownups, either. Such is the nature of online forums – they bring out the worst in some people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What’s your comment policy?<\/strong> Perhaps I’ve gotten spoiled – I haven’t had a lot of problems since about 2010. But there you go. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Hey, you removed a comment of mine, even though (fill in name) regularly says things that are far worse. What gives?<\/strong> With anonymous commenters – people I’ve never met, and likely never will – it’s a little different. I allow anonymous and pseudonymous commenters, and nd pointedly respect their pseudonymity – until the behavior swerves to the wrong side of the risk\/reward line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But what about threadjacking?<\/strong> But hey – you knew “Dog Gone”. You allowed her increasingly dissociative ranting for about a decade. And then, poof <\/em>, she was gone. Doesn’t that contradict what you wrote above?<\/strong> Then she started using the fact that she had <\/em>met me, and did<\/em> know my kids (when they were 1 and 3, anyway), and took a creepy turn…<\/p>\n\n\n\n …and she got flushed like a gas station burrito and tequila, the morning after. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Does a commenter violate the “Hands Off” principle? Dog Gone did. Other commenters who are the subject of occasional complaints never have, and I suspect never will. <\/p>\n\n\n\n That’s pretty much it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n So that’s it? It’s all about you?<\/strong> I loathe echo chambers – as a personal matter, and a practical one. Intellectually, I’m still pollyanna enough to think in terms of political and social engagement as a “debate”, rather than mobilizing support to “own” or destroy “the enemy”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Glad we could chat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s been a few years since I’ve done one of these. It’s probably high time. Why don’t you manage your comment section more thoroughly?I work a day job, a couple side hustles, I try to have some semblance of a life outside of all of them… …and, call me pollyannaish, but I wonder why I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[222],"class_list":["post-77490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mitch","tag-faq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77490"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77492,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77490\/revisions\/77492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
I work a day job, a couple side hustles, I try to have some semblance of a life outside of all of them…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I still have one of those<\/a>. I always tried to keep things simple. I summed it up in one of these FAQ<\/a> pieces a while back. All I ask is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Posting a comment doesn’t connote agreement. What do you think I am, Sally Jo Sorenson? But I give a lot more leeway to people I know, and have met personally. I know where they live, at least, figuratively. I know that they aren’t going to “Swat” me, start blogs to publicize “dirt” on me (well, try to.. There really isn’t a whole lot), or start poking at my kids. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yeah, I’ll whack the occasional threadjack, if it’s obnoxious enough. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hardly. I tolerated DG because it was fun watching her narrative – that conservative commenters were a bunch of idiots – get pummeled like the New York Generals. For about a decade, it was a perfect metaphor for modern society – a “progressive” with no particular visible expertise in anything, getting factually rumbled by a comment section that includes lawyers, MDs, a literal rocket scientist, engineers and generally well-read polymaths mirrors the modern social debate pretty perfectly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well, in a sense, duh. The whole blog is about me, if you think about it. I’m the only (regular) writer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n