“Speaking of Amway, what are YOUR thoughts on…?”

Cursing, foul language, offensive content, or personal attacks are not acceptable on this blog.  The overriding rule regarding acceptable comments is the “living room” rule.  If I would be comfortable with the tone and content of a particular blog comment in a conversation in my living room, I will be comfortable with it on this blog.  If not, the comment will be edited to remove the offensive content, or completely deleted. 

A couple of quotes from two of the internet’s leading bloggers speak to this issue the best.  Dave Taylor, host of the million hits a month AskDaveTaylor weblog (www.askdavetaylor.com) states that “…having some inherent level of respect for other people’s opinions is in order…There is, to me, a very alarming current in our culture toward sarcasm, hostility, and rudeness.  Obviously, people get to run their blogs the way they want.  But from my perspective, if I write about a particular way of doing something, and someone disagrees, I’d rather respond to ‘Oh, I don’t agree,’ than to ‘You’re an idiot!’”  And the highly renowned Scott McNulty, author of The Unofficial Apple Weblog (www.tuaw.com) encourages, “Don’t write anything in a blog that wouldn’t say to someone face to face.” 

I think Dave and Scott speak to the issue quite well.