A Comment About Disagreement
This little blog-o-mine is here to serve one purpose: to let me voice my opinions. I don't particularly care if anyone ever reads it, still less do I care if the people reading it agree or disagree with my opinion.
But what really gets my dander up is when people disagree and get rude about it. That is something I won't tolerate. "Pfitz" disagreed in the Comments Box with my post about the finding of the True Cross, but he was nice about it and his points were thoughtful - thus, his disagreeing (but not disagreeable) Comments post was left in tact.
A few days ago, however, someone posted anonymously (sigh ... of course) against my "Disputationes" post below, and managed to be rude, annoying, and senza substance all at once.
I deleted that comment. Sorry, but that's just not the kind of tone I'm going to let seep into this blog. I mean, this was a pointless Comments post, full of rhetorical questions ("must be nice to be right all the time," "are you so lonely you have to make up conversations with imaginary people," "what's it like to be so smart," etc.) - and, since this blog is my domain, and since I've never believed in freedom of speech and equality and all that crap, I've exercised my right to removed such comments.
A second comment was left - probably by the same person - after I deleted the first comment, basically whining about how this is nothing more than a continuation of Rome's well-known "repression"[1] of the dissenting voice, blah blah blah
That comment has also been deleted. Go whine somewhere else.
So, listen - if you want to post a comment expressing disagreement with something I've said, go for it. If it's a thoughtful and well-worded disagreement, devoid of rhetoric and rudeness, I'll probably let it stand.
But for the record, if you post anonymously, sign your post as "Dixie," and basically do nothing more than taunt and jeer, I'm going to exercise my administrative rights to delete your post.
Fine.
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[1] The word is "suppression," not "repression." There is a difference. Go look it up
But what really gets my dander up is when people disagree and get rude about it. That is something I won't tolerate. "Pfitz" disagreed in the Comments Box with my post about the finding of the True Cross, but he was nice about it and his points were thoughtful - thus, his disagreeing (but not disagreeable) Comments post was left in tact.
A few days ago, however, someone posted anonymously (sigh ... of course) against my "Disputationes" post below, and managed to be rude, annoying, and senza substance all at once.
I deleted that comment. Sorry, but that's just not the kind of tone I'm going to let seep into this blog. I mean, this was a pointless Comments post, full of rhetorical questions ("must be nice to be right all the time," "are you so lonely you have to make up conversations with imaginary people," "what's it like to be so smart," etc.) - and, since this blog is my domain, and since I've never believed in freedom of speech and equality and all that crap, I've exercised my right to removed such comments.
A second comment was left - probably by the same person - after I deleted the first comment, basically whining about how this is nothing more than a continuation of Rome's well-known "repression"[1] of the dissenting voice, blah blah blah
That comment has also been deleted. Go whine somewhere else.
So, listen - if you want to post a comment expressing disagreement with something I've said, go for it. If it's a thoughtful and well-worded disagreement, devoid of rhetoric and rudeness, I'll probably let it stand.
But for the record, if you post anonymously, sign your post as "Dixie," and basically do nothing more than taunt and jeer, I'm going to exercise my administrative rights to delete your post.
Fine.
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[1] The word is "suppression," not "repression." There is a difference. Go look it up
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