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Wednesday, December 06, 2006

New Rule

I'm taking a page from the divine Sunny Philips's playbook: No off-topic posts on comments. You can tell me I'm a fool or a jerk or a prophet—based on the substance of the post, of course—but this isn't a place for people to grandstand on their random, out-of-left-field agendas. I'll be doing all the ax-grinding and ox-goring up in this piece, thank you very much.

Also: visit Sunny's blog; she has far-and-away the best web-design on the SC blogosphere. Laurin Manning, eat your heart out.

Posted by Bill Smith at 4:20 PM | 6 comments

Comments:
Man, I step away for a couple of days and huge changes. I must say I agree with your decision, though. This seems to be a growing trend all of the sudden and I hope it will allow for relevent discussion rather than comment spamming.
# posted by Married Man's Minivan : 12/06/2006 09:52:00 PM
 
I thought that was the Brad Warthen paybook?
# posted by Anonymous : 12/07/2006 09:17:00 AM
 
This may be off the subject. You decide.

Have you wondered whether the blogger you've banned is getting paid by someone?

On Sunday the New York Times ran an article about leftwing bloggers getting paid to blog, who did not disclose their conflict of interest.

The person you're dealing with is doing the dirty work of the teachers union. Does he get paid?
# posted by Anonymous : 12/07/2006 12:51:00 PM
 
Anonymous at 9:17

Not exactly. Brad's playbook is that you can't comment unless you tell him your real name.

But what if you're afraid that you might get fired or kicked out of church?

Brad just doesn't want people talking back to him.

I'm trying to get people to stay relatively on-topic. They can call me dumb, mistaken, or evil if they want--but only in relation to the post that they're talking about.

Gratuitous references to their pet topics--e.g., their fascinations with certain individuals--that are not on-topic still get deleted.

Do you think this is unreasonable?
# posted by Bill Smith : 12/08/2006 12:21:00 PM
 
Bill / Joshua:

Your attempts to silence those of us who are sick of the illegal campaign activity are useless.

We're really just posting it on your sites to annoy you. The only people who visit them are your multiple aliases and your few grouies, anyway.

Call us Democrats if you like. The truth is that the SCGOP mainstream is waking up to what you're doing.

So, censor all you want. This war won't be won on your Libertarian love-fest sites, anyway.

But it will be won.
# posted by GOP4Ever : 12/08/2006 12:49:00 PM
 
So, censor all you want. This war won't be won on your Libertarian love-fest sites, anyway.

Which war is that?

Is that the war to make sure that every child whose parent isn't wealthy gets a crap education?

Or is it the war to make sure that the administrators, bureacrats, and contractors keep their jobs while taxes keep rising?

gop4ever, which one of these wars are you so intent on winning? And who put you in charge of representing what all Republicans think?

I'm jus' sayin'...
# posted by Bill Smith : 12/08/2006 07:59:00 PM
 
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