Comments on: www.Wednesday: My blog, my rules. If you want ‘free speech,’ go get your own blog! http://forthardknox.com/2009/02/18/my-blog-my-rules-if-you-want-free-speech-go-get-your-own-blog/ Politically-Conservative Web 2.0 Activists Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:33:59 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Jenn Sierra http://forthardknox.com/2009/02/18/my-blog-my-rules-if-you-want-free-speech-go-get-your-own-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-10775 Jenn Sierra Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:53:45 +0000 http://forthardknox.com/?p=8153#comment-10775 Thanks for the kind remarks, Leslie. Your goal is certainly a worthy one, and is, I believe, attainable. It's frustrating, though, that in the process of creating a safe environment for your regular readers to openly express their ideas you, as the blog administrator, must endure such abuse by those wishing to do nothing but spew. Hopefully, it is some consolation to know that other bloggers are experiencing the same difficulties. We're all looking forward to reading that new book, Leslie! :-) Thanks for the kind remarks, Leslie. Your goal is certainly a worthy one, and is, I believe, attainable. It’s frustrating, though, that in the process of creating a safe environment for your regular readers to openly express their ideas you, as the blog administrator, must endure such abuse by those wishing to do nothing but spew.

Hopefully, it is some consolation to know that other bloggers are experiencing the same difficulties.

We’re all looking forward to reading that new book, Leslie! :-)

]]> By: Leslie Carbone http://forthardknox.com/2009/02/18/my-blog-my-rules-if-you-want-free-speech-go-get-your-own-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-10773 Leslie Carbone Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:07:25 +0000 http://forthardknox.com/?p=8153#comment-10773 Great post, as always, Jenn, clear and thoughtful. Thanks for all you do. I agree with you that we all have every right to censor comments on our blogs. But I'd prefer not to have to exercise that right. Ideas need refinement through discourse. I want my blog to be a place where that happens, where mature, thoughtful people can politely agree and disagree with me and each other, and thus have our own ideas tested as we learn from one another, without my having to baby-sit. Unfortunately, others want my blog to be a place where they can indulge their infantile, sex-obsessed minds, and that's just not going to happen. Great post, as always, Jenn, clear and thoughtful. Thanks for all you do. I agree with you that we all have every right to censor comments on our blogs. But I’d prefer not to have to exercise that right. Ideas need refinement through discourse. I want my blog to be a place where that happens, where mature, thoughtful people can politely agree and disagree with me and each other, and thus have our own ideas tested as we learn from one another, without my having to baby-sit. Unfortunately, others want my blog to be a place where they can indulge their infantile, sex-obsessed minds, and that’s just not going to happen.

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