You can thank someone acting trollish. After warning about the behavior, I had to delete comments and accounts. Since the troll decided to rotate through guest accounts, I’ve turned off that privilege. To re-acquaint people with our few rules:
As LaShawn Barber says, “On this blog, your speech is a privilege. On your blog, your speech is a right. Learn the distinction.”
Comments (Again, but with more feeling)
UPDATE (2/7/2018): Needed because of trolls
Rule #1 – Adult themes, kid-friendly. Don’t post something that would cause little Johnny and Janie to run to Mommy and Daddy to ask, “what does this mean?” because I’m the guy who gets the call or the email, and I have better things to do.
Rule #2 – Write what you want. Sure, we are a site, for the most part, focused on politics and culture, but if something amuses you, have at it.
The troll problem.
- Rule #3 – Don’t be a troll. If I judge that you are, I will ban you. You might get a warning but you might not – that is at my whim. The decision to ban is final.
Rule #4 – We need to be able to see your DISQUS home/account page. I have disabled GUEST commenting. If you wish to comment here, you will need to open a public DISQUS account first. Apologies to our regular commenters – you may now need to verify your email addresses with DISQUS before continuing; blame the trolls.
Once the original “guest troll” problem passed, I turned guest commenting back on. We’ve had the problem a couple of times since. We have it back again so I’ve had to disable that privilege again. Apologies to you guests that DO behavior themselves – at some point, I will be able to turn them back on.
I will also be giving “Zero Day” DISQUS account greater scrutiny – no choice.
But as necessary, I can delete troll comments and ban troll accounts all day long. It’s not a big deal – it’s just a part of the business.
