Commenting on Comments
Just a quick note before we start the 3 hours drive up to Philadelphia, PA, for PhilCon. It seems my blog is now popular enough to get Spam comments. So, I wanted to explicitly list my comment policy so no one gets hard feeling. First, I love comments — positive, negative, and neutral. Though to be frank, I don’t really like the negative ones but usually after I cool off I see that side of things and appreciate the feedback.
What I’m getting now is just “I like it”, “what a great site” (I wish), and this one that I can’t figure out, “My grandfather loves trains”. So, I’m moderating comments, all comments. You can write a comments without having to log in or do any of that but I’m moderating all comments. If a comment doesn’t add to the topic or discussion — I’ll probably just delete it after reading. That means all those me too posts will just get dropped as I’ll appreciate it, but it doesn’t add to the discussion. That makes it easier for me to delete all this Spam commentary without having to stop and evaluate every post.
Trains, mumble, mumble, I haven’t even had a post about trains on this blog.