Lately, I’ve gotten a lot of inappropriate comments and hate mail. Rather than just deleting those, I’m setting up a comment policy. As long as a comment is clean and fair, I’ll always post it. I’m not going to delete a comment simply because I don’t like what someone has written, or you disagree with me.

1. Don’t use profanity.

If you use foul language in your comment or name, your comment goes directly to trash. I don’t care what else you’ve written. I try to maintain standards here.

2. No anonymous comments.

If you leave an anonymous comment, it goes straight to trash.

3. No fake email addresses.

Recently, someone named “usuck” left a comment and used at@yahoo.com as their email address. Yeah, no cigar.

I invite debate and discussion. Keep it polite and fair, and I’ll post your comment. Don’t spam me. A few weeks ago,  someone left 7 different comments with different thoughts. That was just annoying.

I always view comments as someone visiting another person’s home. Just because we’re not sitting down face-to-face, you shouldn’t be rude. If you came over to my house for a dinner party or event, would you address me as “usuck?”  My blog is my property. When you leave a comment, you are commenting on something I own. If you want to be rude or crass, go create your own blog.

Update: To highlight how immature people are, below is an updated comment that my friend, “usuck” wrote tonight. I know that civility has never been present in the political world but grow up. If the actions of one individual blogger bother you that much, stop reading. I might also add that you may be taken more seriously if you don’t sound like a text message that a 14-year-old girl wrote. I may try to pull his/her previous comment from trash. Trust me. It definitely didn’t “destroy my entire logic.” Oh, the hubris of liberals!

Author : UStillSuck (IP: 98.122.61.163 , cpe-098-122-061-163.sc.res.rr.com)
E-mail : at@yahoo.com
URL    :
Whois  : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=98.122.61.163
Comment:
Nice. My comment completely destroyed your entire logic, so what do you do? Complain about about a username.

Update II: Usuck/UStillSuck’s comment was still in the trash folder, so I added it to the post, “Celebrating Abortion.” Please tell me if you are as blown away as me by his/her logic as I am. Suddenly, the blinders have been lifted, and I’m not pro-life! </sarcasm>.