I banned someone from commenting today, using an IP address. Maybe he’ll be back, I’ll try and get on it if he does. It’s hard to know if I even got him…
Thanks to Charles Keating for doing some detective work, and apologies to Richard Silverstein, who told me a long time ago about trolls and who is one of the people this commenter impersonated. Richard has pushed me to be more responsible. I’m going to try. I apologize to among others Clara, who this commenter was especially rude to. And to all commenters who had to put up with this crap and readers who thought this site was about ideas.
I was saying to my wife this morning, I have poor leadership skills. I’ve always been irresponsible in life, and loosey-goosey. Well, having a blog represents a form of leadership; and I find I’m happy to be a censor. The rules for this site are: I will tolerate abuse, even name calling, even some invective and mild obscenity. I touch on sensitive issues here; and it only seems fair that people should go after me and others with all they’ve got. But raw obscenity, scabrous namecalling, impersonation–that’s over the line.
