{"id":2645,"date":"2008-02-23T14:24:10","date_gmt":"2008-02-23T21:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2645"},"modified":"2008-02-24T20:47:51","modified_gmt":"2008-02-25T03:47:51","slug":"why-does-bloodhoundblog-have-a-comments-policy-in-order-to-prevent-my-property-from-being-hi-jacked-and-our-contributors-and-guests-from-being-abused-insulted-maligned-and-harangued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2645\/why-does-bloodhoundblog-have-a-comments-policy-in-order-to-prevent-my-property-from-being-hi-jacked-and-our-contributors-and-guests-from-being-abused-insulted-maligned-and-harangued\/","title":{"rendered":"Why does BloodhoundBlog have a comments policy? In order to prevent my property from being hi-jacked and our contributors and guests from being abused, insulted, maligned and harangued"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dave Barnes, may the gods cherish his every atom, offers up this observation in a comment to another post:<\/a><\/p>\n

Ardell wrote (on another blog): “Greg blacklists and deletes comments when anyone chooses to argue a point on BHB. You can’t have a conversation there or call them out there. That’s the joke of the whole “let us teach you about WEB 2.0″ thing. AS IF!”<\/p>\n

Is this true?<\/p>\n

Do you blacklist and delete?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh, you bet! We have to.<\/p>\n

We don’t blacklist. In all of our thousands of pages, there is no black-bordered list of unpersons. But our comments policy<\/a> is carefully defined and elaborately documented<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Comments policy:<\/i><\/b> Everyone disagrees with us about something, and we welcome this: It’s how we learn. We encourage a free and spirited debate about the issues we raise here. We police comments with a very light hand, deleting comments and banning commenters only for extreme obscenity, flaming or flame-baiting, plagiarism, spam, impersonation (sock-puppetry) or copyright infringement (a fair-use quotation with a link is fine). This warrants emphasis: We are all<\/i> about ideas, and, because of that, we are very strict about bad behavior. If you get the notion that your fear or anger or rock-ribbed moral fire accords you the right to abuse or insult or brow-beat the other guests in our salon, you will be ejected with dispatch. Nota bene:<\/i> When you’re done, you’re done. Anyone can make a mistake, but if your behavior is palpably malicious, you will be banned from BloodhoundBlog forever.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think I’ve probably told you this before, but I have a great respect for you, Dave. I’ve always found you to be open minded, and I don’t think you are one to be swayed by what one might call political considerations — looking good (or bad) in someone else’s eyes. I don’t think this was intended to be a softball question, but, who, practically speaking, tolerates intolerable behavior on his or her own property?<\/a><\/p>\n

Even so, Brian Brady and I are each playing our own variations of a game we call What would David Gibbons do?<\/a>, so I am going to take some pains to answer every Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dave Barnes, may the gods cherish his every atom, offers up this observation in a comment to another post: Ardell wrote (on another blog): “Greg blacklists and deletes comments when anyone chooses to argue a point on BHB. You can’t have a conversation there or call them out there. That’s the joke of the whole […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,62,24,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-dirty-laundry","8":"category-egoism-in-action","9":"category-group-therapy","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2429,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2429\/two-changes-to-the-about-page-to-clarify-bloodhoundblogs-praxis\/","url_meta":{"origin":2645,"position":0},"title":"Two changes to the About page to clarify BloodhoundBlog’s praxis","author":"Greg Swann","date":"December 26, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I made two changes to our About page, both of them to clear up potential ambiguities. 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