Added Page: Readers Comments

My regulars tend to be pretty smart people, and I’m proud to link their blogs when I know about them. Hanging out with them tends to make me look wiser than I am, and draws me up toward their level.
While my blog was obscure, taking less than 50 hits daily, it was pretty easy to avoid the cranks. Obscurity has its advantages. But posting on a blog carries at least a modicum of hope others will see, and perhaps enjoy something we have to say. While I approach the whole question differently than most people, if I didn’t want people reading, and reacting with comments, I’d not have bothered. I already keep a daily journal of my private ravings on my computer. So somehow I managed to gain more notice in the past year or so, and it’s not quite so peaceful.
Sometimes people assume their internal preferences apply to me. What they do on their blog simply must be how I would naturally do things here. I can’t. You aren’t me and I’m not you. That’s what makes the world so interesting and entertaining. I’d be utterly shocked if I never encountered someone who took a dislike to my words and virtual manners as the host here.
While I do try to accommodate folks, and do take into account their feelings as near as I can understand them, that is hardly paramount in what I do here. To be honest, this blog is a critical part of what I consider my job, my work, my current career. This is my virtual office. And I try to make it plain I don’t operate by everyone else’s expectations, because it’s not a customer service operation. It’s entirely possible I’m hopelessly deluded, but I honestly consider God as my immediate supervisor. He’s the One I have to please. If my sense of who He is differs from yours, you should hardly be surprised. I won’t argue with you, but I’ll do what I think I have to do, not what you think I have to do.
So instead of some simple blurb in the navigation column on the right, I find it becomes necessary to offer a longer statement of what you should expect from me as I handle your comments. It’s the tab at the top called “Readers Note”. I decided this was necessary after my most recent encounter with comments from someone who used the name “ray.” It begins at comment #6. I deleted his/her second comment because I found it off-topic, by virtue of twisting my response to mean something I’m pretty sure the grammar and context would not support. That’s a polite way of saying I’m pretty sure “ray” was trying desperately to provoke an irrational response from me. This commenter is now banned, but I wanted to let you see why I do things like that.
You be the judge, dear Reader.