{"id":71,"date":"2009-05-06T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/kingdomofpriests\/2009\/05\/deciding-when-to-delete-comments.html"},"modified":"2009-05-06T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T08:00:00","slug":"deciding-when-to-delete-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/kingdomofpriests\/2009\/05\/deciding-when-to-delete-comments.html","title":{"rendered":"Deciding When to Delete Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"

It can be a bit of a dilemma. I take down defamatory comments when I catch them — e.g., from the guy who hides behind religious-sounding pseudonyms but wants to use the combox to defame other people by name and then calls me<\/span> a “coward” for deleting him. I want normal people of whatever view always to feel comfortable about reading and leaving comments, not like they need to take a shower afterward. Crude comments spoil an interesting if contentious discussion for everyone else. So they have to go.<\/p>\n

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On the other hand, sometimes the puerilely insulting remarks from anti-intelligent design folks are just so wonderfully revealing of a mindset that I actually treasure them and wouldn’t dream of deleting them.<\/p>\n
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\nAnd no this is not a plant or a put-on. It’s from a guy who signs himself as Bobxxxx, responding to a post he didn’t like.<\/a><\/p>\n

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David Klinghoffer is one of the\u00a0retards<\/span>\u00a0who work for the Discovery Institute, also known as the\u00a0Dishonesty<\/span>\u00a0Institute. It’s a\u00a0Christian creationist<\/span>\u00a0organization. Their only goal is too\u00a0destroy America’s science education<\/span>\u00a0to defend their\u00a0idiotic<\/span>\u00a0belief in magic.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0retard<\/span>\u00a0David Klinghoffer calls his magic “intelligent design” as if calling it that makes it any less childish.<\/p>\n

What’s your problem David Klinghoffer? Why are you so terrified of modern biology? Grow up\u00a0moron<\/span>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Does this not sound like something straight out of junior high school? It’s not so unusual either. What more can one say?\u00a0Thanks, Bobxxxx, you made me laugh on a dark, rainy Seattle spring day.<\/div>\n
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