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.
see definition:
ALSO called hissy fit
AJ, please keep the comments.
sounds like a 6 year old word, or maybe 5?
Poor baby. Take you ball and go home.
I vote to keep comments. I thoroughly enjoy AJ’s posts, even the ones I don’t agree with, but I also enjoy the comments. I’ve learned a lot, especially from links to other sites from Crosspatch, Merlin, Dale, FE and many others. Although I visit here virtually every day, I don’t comment as much as some of you — usually only when I feel I have something to add to the discussion. Perhaps the solution, AJ, is to find a moderator.
conservativered
for the record sport, I’m not the one using the immature name calling.
Yeah, FE isn’t doing any immature name calling.
quote:
“I wouldn’t have thought there were 64 idiots in the Senate, but i’ve learned not to be surprised in politics
Left by For Enforcement on June 26th, 2007”
end quote.
HA HA HA.
By the way, I didn’t call you a name. I made a comment(s) about your actions….namely your hissyfitting and crying.
I vote to keep comments.
As for the bogarting problem, well, maybe either get a moderator as Retired Spook suggested, or just limit each person to X number of posts per hour or per day. (I expect you’d have to find or write some PHP to handle post limits, though.)
Yeah, FE doesn’t resort to name calling.
“I wouldn’t have thought there were 64 idiots in the Senate, but i’ve learned not to be surprised in politics
Left by For Enforcement on June 26th, 2007”
HA HA HA………..
I expect another hissyfit from FE soon. HA HA HA
quote
“…Again, you don’t have to be dishonest to make a point. link me to where AJ asked for a ’simple answer’.
Left by For Enforcement on June 26th, 2007”
end quote.
I know its tough to scroll to the top of this page, so I will play to your laziness just this once…
quote
“…So I put it to a vote.
Keep Comments Up? – “yes†or “noâ€.
Please just vote in the comments….
Posted by AJStrata on Tuesday, June 26th, 2007 at 3:10 pm.”
end quote
Here is some information some of you just might find interesting:
http://www.seiu.org
If you scroll down the site, you will see an article telling how 20 SEIU workers met with our elected elite to push the Amnesty Bill. This is the union that is recruiting illegals as their numbers were tanking and they are now unionizing illegals.
And how does the SEIU spend their political donations?
http://www.opensecrets.com
Why 92% Democrat, of course.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/06/26/bush-mistakenly-calls-immigration-bill-amnesty/
Bush admits bill is amnesty.This might send AJ over the edge,what
with the war support at a new low at 30% and Voinovich joining
Luger in the GOP stampede off the sinking ship.
Reader, you said: “sift through the hissyfitters harping”
might want to check whether you said hissyfitters (a name) vs hissyfitting (an action) believe you’ll find my quote accurate.
Might want to check your facts before you toot your horn.
HA HA HA. FE. I was wondering when you would be hissyfitting a response back to me.
Thankfully, I predicted correctly…..that it wouldn’t take long. HA HA HA
Reader, said:
Yeah, FE doesn’t resort to name calling. “I wouldn’t have thought there were 64 idiots in the Senate,
I see you don’t understand sentence structure and tense correctly at all. being an idiot is an action, not a name.
you should stop digging, you’re in a hole.
Anyway, I am glad the immigration bill received enough votes for cloture. Now we will see how the amendments go and take it from there.
In the end, the Senate and House (comprised of our ELECTED officials) will eventually represent the will of the people and determine the outcome of this workable compromise of a bill.
God I love our REPRESENTATIVE form of government.
Thankfully, I predicted correctly…
Where did you post that prediction? post a link.
Whatever you think is best, AJ, I will support. It’s your site and I will still read the articles either way. I vote “present”