A fact of life – we don’t all agree on everything all the time. So what? It makes life interesting, if you ask me.

Some choose to keep their opinions to themselves, and that’s fine. For some, the hassle associated with opening your mouth just isn’t worth it. Others, like bloggers, choose to put their own opinions out into the public domain. Whichever option you choose, I personally don’t believe either is right or wrong. What I do believe, however, is that when you put your opinions out into the public domain, effectively making them everybody’s business, you then have a responsibility to accept feedback, both positive and negative. If you expect people to read your opinions, you have to at least have the courtesy of allowing everybody else their opinion on the same topic. This is part of the reason that blogs with open comments work so well. Anyone can have their say. Anyone can freely criticise the blogger or applaud the blogger.

My biggest blog gripe is closed comments (much like they used to do if they were announcing a problem on the Second Life blog, or a policy change that might piss people off). My next biggest gripe is overly policed comments. The only comments I erase here are spam. I don’t think that the offer of ‘cheap penis enlargement’ is particularly relevant. I don’t pre-moderate. I don’t manually approve every comment before it’s posted. Why? Because if I have something to say and you lot are prepared to hear me out, then I, in the very least, owe you the courtesy of having your say, in your words, in your time without moderating what goes on here for the benefit of championing my own cause and beliefs.

/end rant.

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