Rule 2:
A. Play nice. This is my place, you do not get to shit on my floor. You are free to disagree with me and with each other, but please do it nicely. Do not use words that you would not use face-to-face. Please give each other the courtesy and respect due to a person who is armed.[1] If you need to respond snarkily or nastily, then say "my response is here", throw in a link to your blog and post it there (but be a stand-up person and let readers comment).
B. Comment moderation is back in effect, due to an assortment of bad actors. They know who they are.
C. Included in "playing nice" is not dropping comments that are off-topic and only serve to promote your pet cause or, worse, a commercial product. This is my soapbox, not yours. You do not make any friends or persuade people when you spam a blog or use another person's blog to promote your hot-button cause. Trust me on this one. If you have a cause to promote or a product to sell, set up your own blog. If you do not know how to do that, send me nine grand (in non-consecutively numbered bills) and I'll set one up for you.
D. Hijacking a comment thread by posting long screeds about anything will be handled without mercy. If you have a very long comment, then write about it in your own blog and then post a link to that post in the relevant comment thread.
E. If you have something good to say about somebody, don't keep it to yourself. (This isn't just a blog rule, it should be a general rule of life.)
F. Yellow cards are warning. Red cards mean that the offending comment has been deleted. Yes, I have a delete button for comments. I am not adverse to using it.
G. If it seems to me that a comment thread is becoming circular (the same arguments keep being made) or that the comments are devolving into insults, I reserve the right to shut off further comments.
H. Holocaust denial is off-limits. (I see no need to explain this one to you.)
I. Election denialism is also off-limits. Comments that deny that Joseph Biden is the duly-elected 46th President of the United States and/or repeat Trump's big lie that the 2020 election was stolen will be deleted without warning.
J. Blatant racism, homophobia, sexism, and transphobia are off-limits. If you would normally preface a remark by saying "I'm not a bigot, but..." then can it. Or be canned.
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[1] In other words, if you would not say what you are going to say to a person standing before you who has a loaded pistol in their hand, then shut the fuck up.
As Sneaky As Santa Claus
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16 comments:
Whew! I had to read the House Rules before leaving, anaconda I don't want to end up dinner for those foul fowl.
Should I read anything into the fact that the captcha heah is "chompee"?
Love your BlogSite! I've agreed w/everything I've read so far, so...no brickbats to toss at you...yet.
I have imagined my brother singing Learning to Fly somewhere in the great beyond, "My grubby halo, a vapor trail in empty air...."
"Sam" flew the Laos & Cambodia "illegal " missions in an A-37B out of Bien Hoa and
waited for the go code at Diego Garcia during the Iranian hostage crisis after they flew their F-111's down from Upper Heyford. He was trying to get out of 111's and into A-10's when he ran out of sky, along w/Yeager's nephew, in July 1980.
Whatever you call it... bad, sloppy maintenance or criminal negligence, the General Dynamics attorneys said, "its cheaper to pay off the families than it is to fix the airplanes. Sam & Paul's untimely end knocked the wind out of a lot of people. As I wrenched on every aircraft or space launch booster since Sam's death, I have never forgotten that crappy maintenance killed them.
Walking through Arlington last January I wondered, "With billions flowing for high tech weapons & trickles for body armor & MRAP's, America has just got to do better".
Anyway....I think they both would have loved your website as I do....let's call it philosophies & "tastes" in common.
Quivive, thank you for your nice comments. It seems as though GD took the same position as did Ford in the Pino fires.
In the interests of pedanticism,
"Averse," in the last line, not "adverse." "Adverse" is a noun. "Averse" is an adjective.
Correction made, thank you.
yikes. you're like me, but smarter and with a gun... is it any wonder i love your blog?
Common sense, and the spammers have been hell lately!
Old NFO, I moderate all posts more than a handful of days old. For some reason, the spammers love hitting older posts. Makes it a lot easier to catch them.
As to Rule 4, the only thing that has EVER offended me is stupidity, so I have never had a problem with this site.
As to Rule 6, Arizona was a state in the Federal Republic of Mexico for 250 years until the United States stole it (along with 6 other U.S. states) in the Mexican-American war in the mid-19th century to "protect" all of the undocumented European-descended immigrants who had illegally taken up residence there. Mexico had three rules for immigration; you had to speak or be willing to learn Spanish, you had to be or be willing to convert to the Catholic Church, and, most importantly, you had to obtain the equivalent of a "green card" from the federal officials in the city of Mexico, DF. When the "papers please" law came out, I wrote a letter to then-governor Jan Brewer and the members of the Arizonal Legislature, suggesting in strong terms that they follow their own logic and self-deport themselves back to England and Europe. Sadly, I got no responses and all of those undocumented English-speaking immigrants stayed put. Don't they ever wonder why almost all of the names of cities and natural features in the Southwest are either Spanish or one of the Native American languages?
Very interesting rules, i will these rules.
Well said! It should be sufficient to say "Please give each other the courtesy and respect due to a person." Period.
Dang, this reads like "regulations written in blood." I like
Most did come about because of assholery in the comments section. That's also partially why there is full moderation (the other why is spammers).
Thumbs Up!
How did I do that? I could not put another name in and now I cannot change it. no harm intended.
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