Okay, That Does It
I've taken the option of commenting anonymously off of this blog.
I'm sorry to do so and I hope it won't inconvenience those of you you who comment under that option but sign your names. It's just that if someone is too cowardly to be identified when leaving rude and idiotic comments, then I don't want his or her thoughts on my blog. Call it censorship but it's my blog and you know what? You don't have to agree with me to read it. You don't have to agree with me to leave a comment --Lord knows I LIVE for the comments, pro and con --but if you're going to take a pot shot at me, you DO have to have the guts to take responsibility for it.
I'm sorry to do so and I hope it won't inconvenience those of you you who comment under that option but sign your names. It's just that if someone is too cowardly to be identified when leaving rude and idiotic comments, then I don't want his or her thoughts on my blog. Call it censorship but it's my blog and you know what? You don't have to agree with me to read it. You don't have to agree with me to leave a comment --Lord knows I LIVE for the comments, pro and con --but if you're going to take a pot shot at me, you DO have to have the guts to take responsibility for it.
Comments
You've got something in common now with both Stephanie Klein and Pioneer Woman....
Congrats!!!
what about freedom of speech?
Anonymous
And on Blogger I had to enable the anti-robot comment thing because I kept getting spam comments from robots.
I am SO SORRY about that parking lot incident, I can imagine how upset I'd be if that happened to me, and I think you're brave to share!
For those of you who don't know, Rockstories was totally kidding. We once had two comments on a linked post by some guy who kept saying "fucken." He meant f-ing but he was too stupid to even CURSE with good spelling. Rockstories, by the way, totally tracked him down even though he had posted anonymously.
However, just to be clear, I'm not censoring anyone or I would have enabled comment moderation. Have it--say anything! Insult my ancestry and my cats! Just not anonymously.
(so that was supposed to be funny)
i just found you and i am insulted on your behalf by yesterday's anon thing. for the record, tho, i totally thought suburban correspondent was hilarious with the translation idea. i dint read that as mean at all.
hope today you are flooded with comments that say:
you f-ing rock!
i am such a cussing wimp that i can't spell it out even to prove that i know how.
I don't mind people disagreeing with me, as long as they respect the fact that no one has any right to tell me what I can or can't do on my own blog.
I've had one in my blogging life, it happened ages ago, and yet it still upsets me enough that occasionally I need chocolate.
- Trish
(and sorry, I can't get that identity thing to work... but that's ok, you know where I live)
Women's intuition is often such a difficult thing to nail down. You can "just know" that something is going to happen, but simply proceed in your life as if you didn't--then get shocked out of your shoes when it does, and you say "gee, guess I shoulda, woulda, coulda listened to my inner voice...hmmm" hindsight being 20/20 and all that.
I'm not saying that the commentor didn't have the right to think and post that I deserved to be yelled at. But I AM saying that if you feel strongly enough to tell me I deserved it, you should at least have the guts to claim it by signing your name. I hate cowards.