Trolls

Since we're starting to get people posting things solely to insult and start fights -- trolls, in other words -- I should probably make it clear that I have absolutely no problem with deleting their comments. As Scott McLemee has written, the internet is a "cultural affirmative-action program for the bellicose, the ignorant, and the deranged," and while I suppose a bellicose deranged ignoramus has a right to say what she thinks, she can start her own damn blog and say it there. I don't owe trolls anything, and I'm sure not going to let them stink up my own site.

Have a problem with this? Think I'm crushing dissent? Don't care. As Joe Bob Briggs used to say, I am not the United Way.

Comments

[Lisa Hirsch]

Yep, yep, and yep.

[PMG]

Congratulations--you know your blog has made it when you get trolls!