Now, as blog owners, we have resources you don't have, one of the most powerful of which is to check the history of a commenter, not just by username, but by IP address. If someone says something that strikes me as off, I can look and see, what is this person's history?

In this particular case, I know that Rachel is a long-standing Basketcase who has said many valuable things. I didn't follow this particular argument until it was too late to unravel (I am no longer able to access the Basket during weekdays), but I know that Rachel is "one of us." Other posters have said things that seemed only mildly offensive, but a perusal of their history showed their true colors.

We are not the fierce moderators of TWoP, but we care very much about maintaining the excellence of our dialogue here.

Re: comment #5 I offer an explanation. The thread is Rude Awakenings, the referenced comment by less of me is #226. I stand by it. I accused a commenter of trolling, then when asked, I apologized, half-assedly maybe. No names were called but certain comments which were reasonably interpreted as offensive were characterized as such. I felt the majority of commenters policed themselves reasonably well there at the time.

I accept the premise that opinions may vary.

not_Bridget, you may have noticed that doing what you were asked not to, in the very post asking you not to, even when you do so in a veiled manner, gets your post deleted. Don't let it happen again.

Rachel: Please re-read the part about we have day jobs blah blah. Instead of whining here about "why was it okay?" like a 12 year old, please bring things to our attention that we miss.

Question for ya: given the above, why was it okay that Less of Me called me a psychopath, among other things?

Also, it seemed my comments were put on moderation for a while when some controversial discussion came up around Betty and Don's scene (the whole thing about it being 'hawt' or not, and violent aspects of the scene, ect.) I was a bit perplexed by this as I certainly was not advocating violence in my comments. Yet, it seems that I was censored after making them. If you say you're going to allow strong opinions, then you need to really do that.

I commend your comments policy, seems fair enough. But I hope you'll enforce it better in the future.

Thanks.

Mad Men is an awesome show and deserves to be discussed on a mature level. If you don't like the show, don't come on there and start bashing the fans.

Thanks Lippsisters!

Well they appear to be virtually interesting at any rate.

In a more serious tone, I need some clarification. We shouldn't discuss other commenters opinions about the show? Opinions that may be or display elements of being sexist, racist, et al.?

I would like to reserve the right to politely tell the children to go outside and play. . . or bang their heads against the wall or sumpthin'.