I love it when people comment on my posts. I encourage it and even approve posts which are absolutely contrary to what I think. However, I won’t approve posts that fit into three categories:
1) They are essentially ads for whomever/whatever and have no substance or benefit to the readers;
2) They are not informative and contributory to the discussion/issue at hand–in other words, a comment that has no meat but has tons of venom won’t get posted. Here’s a hint: if you want to call me names, do it on your own blog.
3) Posts that malign anyone (me or, more importantly, a third party) and that are anonymous. If you are going to say that someone lowballs or isn’t a friend to photographers, you had better have the proverbial balls to put your name behind it or it’s not going to get approved.
That last one happened today and it pisses me off (you can tell, I bet). Anyone can say “Bob sucks” or whatever when anonymous–that’s easy and it’s sneaky-mean. I’m not going to spread rumors and innuendo, which is all comments like that would be without some real person to attribute the claim to.
So, please do comment, just be aware of the “rules.”
Sorry for the Friday rant.
Leslie,
I’d like to see ALL bloggers require posters to leave their names. When did it become OK to ventilate your splene publicly while shouting from behind a wall? I’ve made it a personal policy to sign all posts and I find this cools me off from time to time when the temptation is to rip someone a new one and then run.