Commenting FAQ
Hi there! If you’re reading this, it means you’ve looked at my blog and considered leaving a comment on my page. Here are my answers to some common commenting questions.
- I disagree with something you’ve written, and want to argue my side of the story and/or correct your mistakes!
By all means, comment away! I may not respond to every comment, especially those that I feel most of my readers will understand is very irrelevant to my site (i.e. promoting views that anyone reading a handful of posts here would understand is antithetical to my worldview, such as capitalism, racism, or sexism)
- I’m really angry with something you’ve written, and have written a “comment” full of insults and accusations.
Please review and consider revising your comment. If it begins to resemble a threat (see below), I will certainly delete it. I may also delete it if your comment has no point other than to call me a bitch or a feminazi or some other absurd epithet. But I might leave it if I think it’s funny.
- That last person who commented on this post was an asshole, and totally wrong. Can I comment on her comment?
Yes, please do! I highly encourage discussion of posts, not just isolated comments. I especially encourage smart readers to take asshole posters down a couple of notches. (I rarely feel the need to engage with them at all.)
- I want to leave a threat or personal attack on your page. Can I do that?
No, thanks. Please don’t bother; I hand-approve all comments, and it won’t see the light of day.
- I want to help you enlarge your penis size / tell you about a great new investment opportunity / sell you inexpensive heart medication.
Really? I’ve been wanting to….I mean, no, thank you. Thanks to my spam filters, I don’t even have to delete these anymore.