A reminder about comments...

For your edification, you can read my comments policy here, here and here.

I bring this up because of the presence of a rude troll in this post. (Of all the posts that have open comments right now, this is the last post that I would have thought would attract even the most whacked-out, moonbattiest trolls. Go figure.)

I didn't remove his first comment, even though it was rude, because I thought it deserved a response because of some very unfair charges he made against me. Then he continued to be arrogant and rude in the second comment. I made one final response to him and banned both of the IPs he has used.

I will not tolerate people coming to my site and being rude and abusive to me. I also will not put up with people being rude and abusive to other commenters. (I may make an exception if the recipient of the rudeness is a troll.) If I decide to remove a comment, I will remove any responses to that comment as well to prevent confusion.

It's incidents like this that push me closer to having moderated comments (where the comments don't show up unless I approve them) or commenting by registration only.

I have no problem with people disagreeing with me. Disagree with me all you want -- just don't be a jerk about it and mind your manners. Disagreeing with me does not make you a troll. Being a rude butthead is what makes you a troll.