Sunday - April 09, 2006

Do You Feel Lucky, Punk?

OK, I’ve about had a gut-full of some of you ass-wipes and your petty squabbling here in my house. Yes, that means YOU! I have watched the comments devolve into personal attacks lately and I’ve had enough. There are a few regular members here who are going to find their membership abruptly cancelled if this crap doesn’t cease immediately.

Normally, I do not censor comments and I just let things go where they may but it seems a few people are more than willing to take advantage of my good nature lately. No, I’m not talking about trolls. I’m talking about a few members here who seem to believe this blog is here just for their own personal soapbox. Screw that! This is my blog and the only soapbox here belongs to me. Period. If you can’t get that through your thick skull you’re about to get a lesson in Irish tempers.

The message is simple, clear and understandable by everyone: (1) your comments are welcome even if you don’t agree with me, as long as they are on topic or close to it; (2) your bullshit on personal agendas in the comments is not welcome and will be deleted; (3) keep your cussing and repetitive propaganda to yourself; (4) this is the only warning you will get. I am not going to watch this blog turn into a lunatic version of Democratic Underground. Got that?

New members: in case you haven’t figured it out yet, you have to go through one simple step in order to comment here - register and reply to the confirmation e-mail sent out by the system after you register. If you have some bloody e-mail spam-blocking software or e-mail provider at your end, you’re not going to get the confirmation e-mail and you will never become a member. If you use one of these spam-blocking services that requres people to “add” their address to your safe sender’s list, forget it. The system sends out these confirmation e-mails automatically and it has neither the intelligence nor the time to jump through your hoops. Either add the BMEWS sender’s address (allan “at” barking-moonbat.com) to your safe sender’s list or forget it.

In a related note: if you later change your e-mail address and don’t update your profile here the system will start getting bounced e-mails and that annoys the hell out of me. Your account will be deleted after the third bounce.

Summary: if you’re intelligent enough to buy a computer, boot it up and find your way here then I assume you’re intelligent enough to use your head and act like an adult. If not, go away. There are plenty of other blogs out there. Pack your crap up and take it elsewhere.

If you feel the need to test my patience on this, go ahead. Help yourself. Make my day ...

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/09/2006 at 02:09 PM   
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