The trolls are ruining this place, and I’m sick of cleaning piss out of a carpet that I don’t even care about.  There’s no reason to waste time thinking about comments on this blog, unless it’s to participate in a discussion relevant to the post above them.  I’ve spent way too much time this summer trying to decide how to respond to what amounts to ignorant, masturbatory graffiti.  I feel like a kindergarten teacher.  Well, I’m taking away the scissors.

Comments on this blog are now all moderated.  Hopefully very few comments will actually be screened out, but there will be a delay, while I check to make sure they follow these simple rules:

1) Be civil.

2) Be relevant.

That’s all you have to do: Be civil and relevant.  Even trolls who keep their whiny rants civil and relevant can voice their opinions.  But if you can’t, your comment will sit forever in a queue gathering cyberdust.

Let this be a notice to everyone who’s been warned before:  Don’t waste your time.  I suggest making your own blog and bitching there.

And to everyone who no longer reads the comments because they raise your blood pressure:  You can come back now, the riffraff is gone.