Commenting on the Blog
Dear Readers,
I had mentioned previously that I am very frustrated with this district but that's actually a different issue than what I am bringing up here.
I find it difficult to moderate lately and therein lies the frustration.
Charlie and I have basic guidelines on comments but we try to use our best judgment on what stays and what goes. It's not easy because:
1) if we moderate too much, we're too picky and it's supposed to be an open forum
2) if we moderate too little, then we'll allowing some comments that skirt or go over the edge to some readers.
I can take a certain amount of "personality" to some comments (if only so people see the thinking that is out there).
There is also another issue with the moderation and I said this in the charter school lawsuit update.
I know that some people coming here are paid to do so. They are here to obfuscate and try to run me and other readers in circles.
Call me old and cranky but I reserve the right call it out or to say no.
It's one thing to have an opinion and another to try to spread ed reform rhetoric on my time and my blog.
This blog is one of the few places where comments are NOT pre-moderated.
We allow you to pretty much say what you want (even in criticizing us.) Does the Washington Policy Center? Nope. LEV? Nope.
But after doing this for more than a decade, I'm drawing my own line in the sand.
One, if you've made a point and you just keep making the same point over and over, this may not be the blog for you.
Two, if you try to make it sound like others don't care about children -even though they are clearly at a public education blog - this may not be the blog for you.
Three, if you are here to make this personal and about me, this may not be the blog for you.
So, if you don't like those points, then I invite you to go elsewhere.
Onward.
I had mentioned previously that I am very frustrated with this district but that's actually a different issue than what I am bringing up here.
I find it difficult to moderate lately and therein lies the frustration.
Charlie and I have basic guidelines on comments but we try to use our best judgment on what stays and what goes. It's not easy because:
1) if we moderate too much, we're too picky and it's supposed to be an open forum
2) if we moderate too little, then we'll allowing some comments that skirt or go over the edge to some readers.
I can take a certain amount of "personality" to some comments (if only so people see the thinking that is out there).
There is also another issue with the moderation and I said this in the charter school lawsuit update.
I know that some people coming here are paid to do so. They are here to obfuscate and try to run me and other readers in circles.
Call me old and cranky but I reserve the right call it out or to say no.
It's one thing to have an opinion and another to try to spread ed reform rhetoric on my time and my blog.
This blog is one of the few places where comments are NOT pre-moderated.
We allow you to pretty much say what you want (even in criticizing us.) Does the Washington Policy Center? Nope. LEV? Nope.
But after doing this for more than a decade, I'm drawing my own line in the sand.
One, if you've made a point and you just keep making the same point over and over, this may not be the blog for you.
Two, if you try to make it sound like others don't care about children -even though they are clearly at a public education blog - this may not be the blog for you.
Three, if you are here to make this personal and about me, this may not be the blog for you.
So, if you don't like those points, then I invite you to go elsewhere.
Onward.
Comments
Good for you. I felt a particular individual's personal agenda was to discrediting you and confuse readers.
no caps
Albert
What we don't want to do - and have never done - is pre-moderate comments. You can put up a comment without any preview or editing by us. We leave that to others like LEV and Washington Policy Center.
What I am stating is fairly clear. I don't like wasting my time or readers' time with circular arguments or restating of an argument (unless for clarification).
-Grateful reader
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Just as I told my sons that "Every thought that comes into your head doesn't have to come out your mouth," then every comment doesn't need a reply.
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