No-Flame Zone
I am slow to think the worst of people. I may not like the things they do, but that's not hating who they are. Others do not share this policy. This has given me problems.
Things have gotten mmmmildly controversial on this blog lately, and they may continue to be. I don't actively seek out "drama," but I'm tired of ducking it just to be polite, especially when things like Wikipedia vandalism and the talent-farm business model start working on me. So I'm starting up the same two rules here as I have on my forums:
1) No completely irrelevant comments-- I'd probably mistake them for spam.
2) No personal attacks on me or anyone else in the thread.
Comments that call me on what may be my B.S. are different-- those are encouraged. I make mistakes aplenty, and I'd be a lot worse off if my friends (and sometimes, my Internet enemies) hadn't pointed out my errors. Again, difference between disliking what you do and who you are.
But as I start to find myself getting a wee bit controversial again, I think about what I hated most the last time I did so, and it was the ad hominems. The ones against me that I left on my blog pages in the name of honesty, and the ones that well-meaning friends made against my detractors. I'm just not gonna put up with that any more.
There's a whole Internet out there where you can call anyone an asshole whenever you want! But if you comment on my blog or in my forums and you want your comment to stay around... play nice. Mah house, mah rules.
Things have gotten mmmmildly controversial on this blog lately, and they may continue to be. I don't actively seek out "drama," but I'm tired of ducking it just to be polite, especially when things like Wikipedia vandalism and the talent-farm business model start working on me. So I'm starting up the same two rules here as I have on my forums:
1) No completely irrelevant comments-- I'd probably mistake them for spam.
2) No personal attacks on me or anyone else in the thread.
Comments that call me on what may be my B.S. are different-- those are encouraged. I make mistakes aplenty, and I'd be a lot worse off if my friends (and sometimes, my Internet enemies) hadn't pointed out my errors. Again, difference between disliking what you do and who you are.
But as I start to find myself getting a wee bit controversial again, I think about what I hated most the last time I did so, and it was the ad hominems. The ones against me that I left on my blog pages in the name of honesty, and the ones that well-meaning friends made against my detractors. I'm just not gonna put up with that any more.
There's a whole Internet out there where you can call anyone an asshole whenever you want! But if you comment on my blog or in my forums and you want your comment to stay around... play nice. Mah house, mah rules.
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11:56 AM
4 Comments:
On an entirely unrelated note, did you know that whenever you use italics, that word is mysteriously missing from the BlogLines feed?
No! That's very strange. Works fine on Google Reader.
I had a dream about you last night. You had babies. And I don't mean you got married and sired kids...I mean you were giving birth. To babies. Maybe babies are metaphorical for ideas and I'm really psychic and you're attempting right now to deliver a big idea.
I'm sorry, you said no irrelevant comments. :)
Hear, hear!
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