Comments policies should be like this more often

[ciphergoth]

via Pharyngula:

Unable to bear any longer the tedious work of seeking out all the instances of these two comment types so I can delete them, I have decided that from now on I will hunt down the relevant commenters and kill them.

I realize that it is unusual for a popular science blog to launch upon a policy of killing its own readers. That is why I thought an explicit warning should go up on the site first. This is that warning.

Boring preposition jokes: new termination policy, Language Log

Comments

[sfred]

Brilliant.

It looks like a very entertaining blog in general - thanks for linking.

[doug]

Damn. I'd been trusting Gowers all these years on the Churchill up-putting, and now it's busted.

I realize that it is unusual for a popular science blog to launch upon a policy of killing its own readers.

Seems to be a bit of a fad for this sort of thing - see e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSTLDel-G9k - discussed here http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/green-living-blog/2010/oct/04/10-10-activism

[reddragdiva]

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