A little behind the scenes brew ha ha is brewing in the Delaware blogosphere because some commenters are getting the shitty end of the stick. I will not pretend to know all the technical ins and outs of this thing, but here is the little bit I’ve been able to gleen from being on the receiving end of a few edgy emails.
It seems that Nancy Willing, and Liz Allen (perhaps more) have been prevented from commenting on this and other wordpress blogs like Down With Absolutes. They assumed that someone with adminstrative privlidges here had blacklisted them (which was a fair (albeit hasty) asumption I guess, given my hairtrigger banning policies*). But that didn’t explain Mike, because he has an ironclad non-banning policy.
It is possible that someone (this is conjecture) submitted their posting info to WordPress as spammers.
I don’t know for sure, but I can say with a very high degree of confidence that whoever had them blacklisted way up on high was not a DL contributor. How do I know this?
Like I said, I have a hair trigger banning policy – but my fellow editors are loathe to ban people. And I know that I didn’t do it so…there you have it. It is regrettable and I hope someone gets to the bottom if it.
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*For the record, my personal policy is idiosyncratic but consistent. I have banned people for boring me by reciting wingnut talking points and for making overly crude comments that are not funny but are intended to inflict actual harm. My rational is that I get my fill of wingnut talking points from the evening news so I don’t need it here and as the t-shirt says, “Mean people suck.”