Thursday, 2 August 2007
Blog Comment Policy
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I've chosen to allow comments, but only moderated comments. This comes after much consideration. Joel Spolsky, of Joel on Software, has a good restatement of Dave Winer's arguement for why comments on blogs are not a good thing. I mostly agree, and I will set my moderation standard pretty high. I'll only pass through comments that I think significantly add the conversation. Things that should get a "(Score:5, Informative)" if they were a Slashdot comment. Otherwise, I might respond with email. This all has the added benefit of reducing and simplifying my spam fighting tasks.
Sooner or later somebody will get ticked and complain that I censored them, blah, blah, blah. Yes, I censored you. I censored you from spouting your drivel using the web server I pay for because I deem your drivel to polluted my own. Don't like it? I don't care. Get your own blog. Feel free to send angry follow up emails, so that I can stroke my delusions self-importance when I ignore you dismissively.
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