Polite Dissent

There was some confusion this week with someone who posted some rude comments under my name (well, it could be under their name too — Scott isn’t exactly a rare name). The problem is they pretended to be me.

No more.

I will now be using the “Official Comment Plugin.” This only affects my comments — they will be marked as “Offical Comments” and will be a lovely shade of green. It only affects the comments that I post from here on out, so previous comments by me will still appear the same.

If it’s not marked as “Official,” it’s not by me (see my example in the comment section)

No changes to the comment policy otherwise. I’m doing my best to keep this site an open forum and I welcome all legitimate commentors including those who disagree with me. There is moderation that kicks in occasionally, but it is designed to stop comment spam, not legitimate posters. If your comment doesn’t appear right away, some word in there knocked it into the moderation queue. Be patient, I’ll clear it as soon as I can.

(And I still haven’t found a good comment preview plugin. I’ll keep trying…)

UPDATE: OK, now I’ve found a comment preview plugin that seems to work well.