Jun 26 2007
Closing Down Comments?
OK folks, the comments section of this blog is being underused by serious commenters and fouled by people who whine about insults as they fling them left and right. Sadly, the comments section is losing it purpose for me – the owner of this little old site. So I put it to a vote.
Keep Comments Up? – “yes” or “no”.
Please just vote in the comments. I have had it with the BS and it is a pain to keep monitoring the comments for spam and finding just a bunch of crap once the spam has been removed. We have 1300 registered users, but only a handful comment. I get the feeling they are bogarting the comments and have chased others into silence. I know I avoid them most days. Anyway, please vote. No promises from me I will honor the vote.
My time is precious and when I take a day off for a big event like today’s vote and the losers come thrashing in with angst and anger it really questions the utility of the comment section. It was never meant to be a “bitch and moan about AJStrata” section.
Update: Seems the trend is to keep the comments and ban the nasties. I am glad to hear there are more folks reading than posting the garbage, which is what I suspected since the traffic level only drops a bit when I challenge the orthodoxy. I will keep the comments on. And if posters can’t be civil (as the amnesty hypochondriacs seem incapable of doing)….
Well – we shall see. After listening to Sean Hannity whine all day about how our democratic processes was shoving something down his throat (simply because his side took a loss) I realized a lot of people do not love this country as they profess so much to do. True love of country is demonstrated in how one loses the debate, and does this while still supporting America. It is not demonstrated in how one acts when they win.
The far right has done a disservice to this country in the way they are losing ugly on this. Hannity was crowing about how he has had the same position on immigration for years and how this was something to admire. Well, Bush (and others) have held their positions for long times. So if it is admirable in Hannity, it must admirable in Bush. But Hannity did not admire his adversaries – he belittled them and puffed himself up. I realized after getting totally repulsed by Hannity’s hissy fit that there is possibly some good to come of this. And it is probably better to demonstrate a better option than following in the footsteps of those who cannot tolerate differences of opinions. The comments will stay open, if only to prove to the hypochondriacs there is a better way.
Yes.
One more thing. We had huge immigration after WWII, most of the people who came were Europeans. Today those who want to immigrate are not Europeans, but form “third world” type counties. The third world countries are no longer white anglo-saxon protestants or catholic. Think about it, we are really quite lucky that our neighbors want to come here. Europeans are having an immigration problem too. Their neighbors will be much harder to assimilate then our neighbors.
One more thing, with 4.5 unemployment, we must need many of the immigrants.
And lastly, those who come over the border easily can go back over the border too.
I completely understand your frustration. I say keep the comments open but its a pain to have to sift through the hissyfitters harping on the same old tired arguments as well as take every response to their comments like they were personally insulted.
Yes but toss the trolls.
Ooops…no. Whichever means shut down the comments section.
Its funny, AJ asks for just a simple answer but people like FE still babbles on and responds to every minute and moot point.
Quit your crying FE. There is another vote for cloture on Thursday. Take a break with the Kleenex.
satrist
using firefox browser, composing in the comments section terrye and firefox, for that matter, show up with red underline, until you add it to your dictionary.
OOPS maybe not this Thursday, but sometime in the near future.
satrist uh, and satrist does also.
FE–
“…The only posts that get lots of comments, generally are about immigration. And this is my opinion:
You have a lot of readers that like what you write, except on that subject and then those faithful readers just can’t believe you have bought into the illegal alien amnesty thing hook, line and sinker. It is totally out of character for you and they are baffled by it and are looking for some sanity in it. And can find none and it is frustrating to them…”
EXACTLY.
reader:
Its funny, AJ asks for just a simple answer but people like FE still babbles on and responds to every minute and moot point. Quit your crying FE. There is another vote for cloture on Thursday. Take a break with the Kleenex. but its a pain to have to sift through the hissyfitters harping on the same old tired arguments
Didn’t take you long to join the name calling brigade.
If it’s a pain and you don’t enjoy, then don’t do it. Go fly a kite or something else that interests you.
Again, you don’t have to be dishonest to make a point. link me to where AJ asked for a ‘simple answer’.
EXACTLY.
No. Not exactly. AJ will debate till the cows come home on any other subject. On this issue and this issue alone he doesn’t want to debate. And neither do the senators, apparently. They are still waiting on the print out of the bill with the amendments. **sigh**
And the hissyfitting continues.
And the hissyfitting continues.
and the childish namecalling continues.
just what the hell is hissyfitting?
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) – Cite This Source
his·sy [his-ee] Pronunciation Key – Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun, plural ‑sies.
Slang. a fit of anger; temper tantrum.
Also called hissy fit.
[Origin: 1930–35, Americanism]
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.
Kathie, between 1941 and 1950 (which includes the five years after the WWII ended), a total of 1,035,000 immigrated to the United States. That number is almost equal to the number of illegals that enter our nation annually. While the number touted is 12 million illegals, no one knows for sure (they are all hanging out in the shadows, you know, like the shadow cast by the Home Depot buildings) but the Border Patrol claims the number is closer to 20 million. 20 million would mean that we have had an average of 1 million a year since the last amnesty.
And remember, those that immigrated after WWII were trying to escape oppressive governments and religious persecution. That is no longer the case with most of the illegals now here.
I asked what ‘hissyfitting’ meant. Not hissy.
HA HA HA pretty much says it all
hissyfitting would be the act of throwing a hissy fit (smile)
Keep the comments.