It's never been much of a problem before, but if I don't know you and you jump into the conversation with phrases such as "you're all right-wing assholes," I might not bother reading your doctoral dissertation beyond that. (There's only one guy who gets to talk to me like that, and he blackmailed talked me into letting him co-blog.) You might even fall victim to the neocon chickenhawk fascism infecting AmeriKKKa by having your screed deleted from my host's server. I realize people like to type things and then read what they've just typed, we all do, but it's a simple matter of custodial duty. It's a big Internet, and there are plenty of other places to shit.
(Mockery and contempt will be otherwise tolerated, of course, but at least try to be entertaining about it.)
And just to exert my capricious will, I'm not going to turn on comments for this post. Good luck with the petition.
Posted by Jim Treacher at October 19, 2004 02:12 PM