Do As I Say

If you head on over to Rebecca Jaffarian's blog you'd see a timely entry that has evolved into a few discussions. It started off as a not-so-subtle warning about personal attacks and how they are a no-no. Now, I've totally got RJ's back on the fact that it is HER blog and she can do what SHE wants with it. You all have the right to free speech but she has the right not to post it on her site. But sure it can rile up a few feathers when she calls someone out about personal attacks and uses some little jabby jabs of her own. And yes, she did. Again, why should she care if you don't like it though.

Get into the comments and there's a nice discussion on coffee - like the real coffee drink, not Ms. Coffee of the 3rd Ward. And then a totally understandable segway into some soft core blog bashing. I find it highly amusing that a blog that started by coming down on personal attacks is approving comments that are on the fringe of them. And again, you don't like it, so what, she don't care (<-- and what song was this adapted from?).

OK seriously, my interpretation of the RJ decree is that if someone comments on her blog and then you come along and make fun of that commentor or say something bad about the commentor, she won't publish it. No back and forth pushing like a playground fight. How the first jab is allowed to get thrown -or at least what I consider to be a jab, I guess she doesn't though- is up to her. That's why I don't like comment moderation, when you approve the comment some people will think you approve OF the comment. Especially when it is a comment that, oh I don't know, could kind of, maybe, possibly appear to go against your own rules from on high. It happens all over the place but here was just an example from today's comments. But let it be known that I know she can do what she wants as it is her blog and if that reason isn't good enough for the rest us, well, toughsies. Right?