Recently I’ve gotten a few cut & paste screeds against Obama. Anti-Obama talk is fair game around here, but I’ve made a decision not to let people regurgitate all over my blog. If it’s short, I probably won’t bother with it. If it’s original writing with some reasonably sized quotes, that’s cool too. Purely original rants (not including personal attacks against non-public figures)* are still completely fair game. Same goes for anti-McCain talk or anti-Clinton talk or pretty much any other subject. Littering my blog with semi-coherent blocks of text won’t add a lot to the discussion. All of this is, of course, subject to my power drunk and potentially arbitrary discretion. But, I like to let folks know where I’m coming from, and if I govern with too heavy a fist, it’s not like I’m the only blog in town. The community here will probably drift elsewhere.
(*Minor trash talk between Branden and Buzzcut will probably still be tolerated because it amuses me and they don’t seem to mind.)
I’ve been wondering how much trash talking you’ll really tolerate.
Jeez, on my blog, on my Michelle Obama is a dummy who failed the bar exam thread, people are trash talking ME.
I got that same Obama cut and paste comment on my blog.
I left it on there. We’ll see if we get more of them.