Hi all: I hope you all had a lovely 3 day weekend. I made it a 5 day weekend. I posted a sea ice thread. I grilled, I tanned, I visited Popsie-Wopsie in Highland Park.
I did not really read many comments.
It looks like many of my visitors will be returning to notice the sea ice bet thread is filled with comments from blog visitors who decided to spend the 3 day weekend discussing moderation policies at other blogs. Regular readers know that on the one hand, I moderate very lightly. On the other hand, tangents are normally reigned in because I am at home and pipe up when people start going off on really long debates about moderating policies at other blogs.
Now that I’m back, I’d like to remind people that my policy toward comments at blogs that are not my blog is this: Other bloggers get to moderate their comments the way they see fit.
This policy applies equally to Tamino, Anthony, Gavin, Joe Romm, SteveM, Roger Pielke(JR and SR) etc. It’s ok with me if my visitors to occasionally mention commenting policies, as I think people do need to know a little about perception of policies. But going on and on and on and on about how you don’t like someone’s moderating policy is… well… boring.
If you really hate someone’s moderating policy and feel the need to air your views, do what the rest of us do: start your own blog. When you do, you will discover that if you write endless posts on moderating policies at other blogs, no one, and I mean no one, will read your blog. The reason is simple: Your blog will be boring.
So, those of you who have gripes about moderating policies at other blogs (and you know who you are): Please air these gripes elsewhere. OK? By the way, I have added the words “denier” and “denialist” to the spamkarma list of “bad words”. Spam karma will subtract “5 points” from your comments Karma, which will tend to land it in the spam bucket, though that is not certain. So, whatever it is you want to say, try to say it without using those words.
Other than that: Happy Memorial Day. Tomorrow, I will return to regular blogging.
Thanks Lucia, well done! Its time to put a stop to this offensive practice.
Lucia
Congrats on writing that publication (to be)!
Bravo.
Nathan–
We are still waiting to see if it will ever be a publication. The reason I haven’t been answering your constant questions about putting together things is that I don’t want to discuss review comments or some other odd things that happen with some of the various submission. (There is more than one item in the pipeline.)
Well, I keep coming back for temp anomaly bets, but see only Sea Ice bet. What gives? I have been saving my quatloos for 0.515 C for temp anomaly. Sea ice is not really my thing.
Lucia
It’s good to see, whatever happens. Even if this particular paper doesn’t get published, it’s good to know that the attempt is being made.
Nathan–
Yes. Attempts are being made. Interesting things even happen. It’s too bad most journals don’t have open reviews because, in that case, we would point to them, read them and discuss them. But they don’t and it seems to me not wise to post what my paraphrase of what a reviewer wrote, with my answer during a review process. This is true regardless of the outcome of any communications on the review front.
sHx
Sorry! I missed the may UAH bets! No one even prodded me. I’ll get the june one up so that doesn’t slide.
But going on and on and on and on about how you don’t like someone’s moderating policy is… well… boring.
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God yes !
I think I’d even rather read RANS posts .
If people want to discuss such moderation, maybe they should contact http://aicomment.blogspot.com/ and ask for a thread for discussing the topic. An Inconvenient Comment might find some new sites to consider. The Memorial Day weekend discussion probably has enough fodder that one could volunteer to write a guest article for AIC to start the discussion. [I am not affiliated with AIC, but this seems related to what they’re doing.]
AnonyMoose–
Excellent suggestion. I’ll try to remember that and suggest that people post their complaints about moderation at “blog X” at AIC. I do think people need a venue to air those gripes; I just don’t want to host that venue.