{"id":8423,"date":"2013-10-18T12:24:23","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T12:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/10\/18\/why-i-rarely-allow-comments\/"},"modified":"2013-10-18T12:24:23","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T12:24:23","slug":"why-i-rarely-allow-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/10\/18\/why-i-rarely-allow-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Rarely Allow Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because of comments like these<\/a>, though they are surely not the worst one can find. (I cite them only because my Referral List pointed me to the post to which they are appended.)  But they are characteristic.  In my experience, to discuss religion with the irreligious and the anti-religious is a sheer waste of time.  You may as well discuss logic with the illogical, music with the unmusical, or poetry with the terminally prosaic.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am regularly surprised by how much garbage Victor Reppert tolerates in his ComBox.  He will even allow people to insult him in vile ways.  It may be that he is a model of Christian detachment, slow to anger, quick to forgive, tolerant to a fault.  It may also be that he doesn't appreciate that to tolerate bad behavior  is to invite more of the same.  A conservative, I take a harsher line, one more in keeping with the realities of human nature, realities liberals tend to ignore.  Conservatism as I espouse and practice it subsumes the classically liberal commitment to toleration.  But toleration has limits.  In any case, a weblog is private property where no one has free speech rights.  <\/span><\/p>\n

A man's home is his castle, and his blog his cybercastle.  Just as I do not tolerate bad behavior in the first, I do not tolerate it in the second.  But bloggers are free to run their blogs any way they see fit.<\/span><\/p>\n

You might think that disallowing comments limits my traffic.  Not so.  Traffic is better than ever, recently up around 2000 pageviews per diem.  Readers I respect tell me that they like my Comments Policy.<\/span><\/p>\n

To end aphoristically:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The best arguments against an open combox are the contents of one.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Because of comments like these, though they are surely not the worst one can find. (I cite them only because my Referral List pointed me to the post to which they are appended.)  But they are characteristic.  In my experience, to discuss religion with the irreligious and the anti-religious is a sheer waste of time.  … Continue reading “Why I Rarely Allow Comments”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-varia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}