Today’s gem from the crankiest man on the intartubes, in reference to why he likes comments on blogs:
But rebuttal, esp principled rebuttal, really doesn’t add anything to a comment thread. Obviously there’s room for disagreement. And of course it helps people feel heard. But that’s for them, not for me, and not for future or current readers. Being very blunt and direct, it just doesn’t interest me. I don’t post here to get into debates.
I’m glad to see Ol’ Man Winer be honest here. He allows comments for one of two reasons, to provide him with information that he’s too fucking lazy to look up himself, or to provide glowing feedback for whatever whackaloon notion bouncing around his head today. Disagreeing with him…VERBOTEN!
Now, of course, Dave owns his blog and has every right to set the rules as he wants. Just like the rest of us have the right to sit back and laugh at his Borderline-Personality-Disorder-suffering ass.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
