10:08AM
Further refinements in the comment policy
Saturday, February 11, 2006 at 10:08AM Additions to the not-too-formal comment policy:
In general everyone has been doing very well with comments. We are up to 265+ comments. Thank you for your contributions.
Everyone is welcome and encouraged to comment. However, the comment must be pertinent to the thread. And, while you are free to disagree with Tom, if every comment you write is in fundamental disagreement with Tom, there are other websites where your time would be better spent.
Furthermore, comments should be reasonably brief. There are many fine, free weblog services where your long writings can be posted.
UPDATE: Until I get Trackbacks up and running, anyone who posts at greater-than-comment length about one of Tom's posts should feel free to self-link in the comments.
Reader Comments (3)
That last part is why a trackback section may be a good idea.
So... I didn't notice... you didn't have Comments before? No matter. Just wanted to say I read this Blog regularly and I'm trying to Comment More and Lurk Less these days.
Shloky: great point. i do want to roll out Trackbacks sometime. in the meanwhile, anyone who posts at more length on their own webspace about one of Tom's posts should consider themselves invited to link their post in the comments.
Jake: right. they were open originally, then closed for a long time and only back open for the last three weeks.
and i'm going to hold you to that commitment to comment more ;-)