I recently began blocking comments on my website because some hateful woman was repeatedly leaving comments which called me a cunt. That’s my least favorite word and in my opinion about the most hateful thing you can call another woman. I tried repeatedly to reason with the woman via e-mail and get her to back off but she grew increasingly more vitriolic so I put up a blocker allowing me to screen, then approve comments before they could be publicly posted on my website. I welcome comments and feedback but there’s something especially nasty about people who not only disagree with you but feel free to insult you and call you names on your own website. Kind of like going to someone’s home as a guest, eating their food, then picking a fight with them. As I approach 50, I grow increasingly certain of what I am willing to put up with and what I won’t tolerate and I will not tolerate being abused on my own site. If you choose to post hate filled messages go elsewhere.

This week, I’m dealing with Larry. Larry has been spending lots of time in the last week or so leaving lengthy and at times repetitive comments on my blog. At first I found him engaging, then just tedious. I work a full time sales job, tend to my family and my home and have a limited amount of time to maintain the website and blog. It was taking up an increasing amount of time responding to Larry and I just grew tired of it. He’s apparently pissed by my blocking him and posted some nasty comments about me elsewhere as a result. Some others piled on with their nasty comments about my career and my lawsuit most of which was just plain mean but I digress.

I’m fascinated by the amount of time and effort some people can devote to petty disagreements. I post information and blog to vent about my political opinions and also to share information I have gleaned with others. I also post on SC Hotline in an effort to enlighten some of our conservative friends. I don’t hold myself up as an expert in politics or having never made a mis-statement. The website is something I use to promote my personal business and as a means of staying active politically. Larry purports to be concerned about truth in media; hopefully he will take up a different course and focus his attention on some other medium or opinion maker besides myself. I can’t convince Larry to change his mind and I refuse to turn over my comment section to his endless objections. Comments are simply that comments to posts or blogs, they aren’t meant to serve as a forum for your personal edification.