Yesterday we had an incident where, in a post about the ongoing controversy of the Texas law that would ban TSA 'groping', a commenter posted the addresses of certain Texas public officials, followed by a recommendation that others forward the names and addresses of these public officials to sex offender lists.
Needless to say, we don't do that here.
I removed the comments, troll-labeled that commenter, and made it clear that Rantburg does not and will not be a party to the harassment of public officials.
In the pantheon of public officials, there are some that one might not like or respect. Think of them as you wish, but understand that Rantburg will never -- never -- engage in activities that would be considered by any reasonable person to be harassment. It's not appropriate. It's ethically and morally wrong. It would give our blog an unsavory reputation.
We're not going to go in that direction. Not now, not ever. The ends do not justify the means.
In response to my moderator note last night, at least one other commenter decided to be insulting to a co-moderator, Badanov. You can read for yourself if you like, but I shall note for the record, in case one fell off the turnip truck this morning and doesn't understand how blogs work, that it is a really bad idea to insult blog moderators. That commenter shall learn.
Discourse is great. Sometimes it gets heated here, and we understand that. But harassment of anyone, and/or outright rudeness to other commenters, moderators and the blog owner, simply won't be tolerated.
Let's keep it civil. |