Smile when you say that partner!

Deletion policy is a very interesting thing. It has destroyed certain blogs. It eventually rears it's ugly head when blog matures and enough people have been there long enough for factions to develop and resentments fester. Of course these fights can start much faster when the dynamic is transferred to a new blog with people that know each other from other places.

I am basically a first amendment absolutist but maybe I am also the self righteous hypocrite that some have delighted in calling me. By limiting access to this blog I have basically eliminated the problem. I did have people here who I gave the benefit of the doubt like Titus and Inga and the Crack Emcee. Their own mental compulsions and psychosis led to them being banned. I can control that because it is a closed blog and you have to be approved to comment here. But if you are approved you have free reign. To curse and blaspheme. To say stupid stuff. To be stupid as much as you want to be. But I draw the line at attacks on family or children. I don't think it is fair to attack a spouse who is not commenting and is not on the internet. They are innocent and it is not cool to bring them into the fight. Children are always off limits.

What to do with someone like Meade is interesting. I like Michael Haz's policy to delete personal attacks with extreme prejudice. That works with Meade because that is all he's got. I mean why a person who calls everyone at Lem's racists and sexists and homophobes but still wants to post there should be a mystery. But it's not. He wants to drum up business for his wife's declining blog. He did so much as openly call for people to go over there today. I joked that TOP averaged 25 comments a thread now but Icepick corrected me. It's more like 35. Whoopise.

I have not been at Crack's or TOP for over a month. It is funny how you can still be fully informed though. I have a lurker who doesn't comment here but sends me excerpts and reports. I don't comment directly on them because I don't want to follow the link to give them clicks and page views. So I might mention them in a passing comment and let people correct me if I got it wrong. For instance I heard that Crack posted Michael Haz's photo in one of his ridiculous diatribes. Now both Michael and I are not scared of He-Man Master of the Universe threats from Crack. He is selling Wolf tickets he can't cash. I mean he was ruminating about who he knew in New York that would come to the store and shoot me. Nice right. You can't get too upset about the ravings of a lunatic.

I hope this chapter in our journey in the internet is over. Now that Crack is being ignored or deleted when he shouts racism and makes juvenile threats we can concentrate on important things. Marilyn's dalliance with Uncle Herman. Nubile starlets of the 1960's. And of course the fact that Betty Rubble is a dirty girl.

Let's keep our priorities in order.