Point of Order

I had a drive-by troll hit the comments last night. While I resist hitting the delete key, some folk just beg for it.

Firstly, if you open your tirade with an insult, it is likely that you will not persuade anyone of your arguments. Likewise shouting and also likewise simply regurgitating tired old hogwaffle that has already been debunked and the discussion put to bed over a year ago.

Complaining that the comments have been closed due to you arriving late to the party will get you nowhere. Now I know that many bloggers like to keep comments open ad infinitum, but I don’t. There are two reasons for this; firstly I don’t particularly want to resurrect something months, even years later, long after most people have had their say and the matter thrashed out. Secondly, old comment threads are a spam magnet. So, you want to comment on something that’s now closed? Frankly, that’s just too bad. You missed the boat. Get over it.

Oh, and no, your incisive argument didn’t win me over. When someone tells me that cat shit isn’t organic, their credibility evaporates as they jump the shark. Anyone who can make such an idiotic assertion really is, well, an idiot. Equally, when someone signs out by asserting that they don’t expect me to respond positively (how astute, you are, eh?) and they won’t be commenting further is simply engaging in a childish rhetorical trick –  an attempt to have the last word and flounce out of the room. Get over yourself.

What you do not do is hit a current entirely unrelated post and paste your ill-informed rant several times over in the hope of drawing my attention. That just gets you deleted and banned, which is precisely what happened last night.