I just closed the comments on the talk that matters… because a tit-for-tat was about to break out. I removed both comments, because that seemed fair. I’ve decided that that’s the only way to deal with such things. It keeps others from commenting for me to close things, but looking back over what happens when one of those things get going, the discussion invariably stops anyway and people join in the conflict. That’s not to say I’m going to censor negative opinion, or negative comments directed towards me [unless they get monotonous]. I can even live with conflict among commenters. But the first hint of contemptuous, sarcastic, uncivil banter and I’m afraid that this is going to be my response. I’ve tried everything else I know. If my belief that that kind of thing shouldn’t be here is idiosyncratic to me – as Popeye says, "I am what I am."
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