Comment Policy

I moderate the comments for this blog, but only lightly. Over the past five years, I've had 8,720 comments posted on this blog. Out of all the people who left comments on the Loom, I can only recall banning two. I don't block comments from people just because they believe the Earth is a few thousand years old or have some other non-scientific notion of how the world works. I don't mind being told I'm wrong (even if I'm right). It's also fine with me if commenters get fierce in their exchanges with each other. I'm not going police writing style. But I do get bored with comment threads that wander off far from the original post, into tedious viciousness, purely narcissistic self-justifications, and other pointless enterprises. I also get bored by people who post spam-like manifestos, especially ones that have little or nothing to do with the original post ...