don’t <\/em>respect someone, and feel the need to express it especially directly…<\/p>\n\n\n\n…don’t. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Take it elsewhere. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maybe take it to Twitter, and have your ire swallowed up in the frothing sea of it. Or try your luck with Facebook’s censorship. Come up with things worth discussing. Perhaps start a blog, or other online outlet of your own, and build yourself an audience. Let them debate in your comment section any way you want to. See how it goes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s a free-ish country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stick<\/strong>. Otherwise?<\/p>\n\n\n\nIf you make a habit of threadjacking, or especially obnoxious dick-measuring, I’ll mark your comments as “spam”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Which means your future comments will go into the spam queue until I get a chance to look ’em over. All <\/em>of them. . <\/p>\n\n\n\nWhich means a couple of things:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n- As we’ve seen in this comment section over the past couple of years, not only do I not <\/em>have a lot of time or energy to spend on playing comment police, I don’t want to<\/em>. Your comments may just stay in the mod queue forever. I’ll try <\/em>to stay on top of things – but there’s no guarantee stated or implied. So just don’t do it. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Given that my spam moderation tool (“Aismet”) has gotten more opaque and automated over the years, it’s entirely possible I”ll never see your comments. I honestly don’t know. And if it gets to that point, I’m OK with that. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Unreasonable? Nah. Not for grownups. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So – if you’ve got it in your head that you want to try to change the subject in the comments, and make a practice of it (you know who you are)? You can’t. So don’t. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
If your go-to is volume? Volume is for guitars and cars. Not arguments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Carrot? <\/strong>I”ll be re-opening comments on Monday. <\/p>\n\n\n\nNo, not today. The “rules” aren’t really open for debate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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