Duck Billed Platitudes! If only I’d realised when I got my blog, though, that I should’ve made the URL the same as the blog name not my username!! (I keep wondering if it’s too late to change it or if it’d throw the brains of everyone who’s already got it, out of kilter.

Did that even make sense??
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Truth be told, most people don’t need to check out the comment policy. But for those who have alternate agendas, as you mentioned, you’d think they’d care enough, if they plan on coming back at least, to see what it says.

Duck Billed Platitudes; that’s classic!

So far, touch wood (looks for some wood to touch – ah, under the formica-topped table, that’ll do) I’ve not had keywords in place of names, unless you count usernames? WordPress/blogspot usernames are often very anonymous especially when the people behind them don’t include a name. I try (but often forget) if I’m posting via my blog URL to include my first name, but when I forget, people call me ‘oldbird’ as many don’t like the ‘absurd’ bit!

I’ve also got a commenting policy, though my blog readership is smaller than yours (I’d think) as mine’s less… I dunno, less commercial? Anyway, I moderate all my comments and so I get to choose whose get in and whose don’t. And I have edited a few of them, mostly those which not only have a link back to their blog in their gravicon/usericon, but then put an extra link in their comment. Just like you, I don’t like comments that don’t relate to the post their purporting to be replying to. So if someone posts a link to a post in their blog or someone else’s that’s related to what I’ve written, then that’s fine. If not – then nope, I’m not having it there!

Anyway, nice to meet you. I’ve not read many of your posts yet (apart from the one/s that brought me over to this one) but have you in my feed reader now so will read more. I am also one for replying to comments. Oh – and interesting to discover the ‘commentluv’ thingy. Don’t know if I’ll use it myself or not, but it’s nice that it’s here.

Now to try and get back to your post that I was originally going to comment on!
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That was me thinking you were too tough; it’s still a tougher policy than mine. lol

I may have to use you as a testimonial next time someone says I’m too tough.
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Thanks for the post, and for the agreement. I try to keep thing as simple as possible for everyone, and I like to be communal as well.

I need to port my one over from my old site but it basically had the same sentiments as what you’ve described here, especially that of using a real name.

Again, I’m with you on the fact that I want a real name but not necessarily the persons actual name if they want a level of anonymity then an alternative name is acceptable, just not a name filled with keywords.

Karl
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Thanks for jumping in. I’ve had problems with too many plugins messing up the blog. I wrote about it in September, having to go through every single plugin I had to figure out which ones were messing up all 3 of my blogs. If I ever add another plugin, it’s going to have to survive the tests first.

However, I just don’t like Keyword plugin, and, as you saw in another comment I wrote, a friend of mine tried it for awhile and he decided he didn’t like it either. We don’t all like the same things, it seems.

Actually, I’m not making an exception for you, though I’m giving you this post and the one you wrote on another post before I wrote this one. You can still have Trade Show Guru, but I have to ask you to put your name before that from now on. At this point, it wouldn’t be fair to hold you to a different standard than I’m holding Mack to.

Besides, you like sharing your name, so let everyone see it prominently!

Your grandfather may have belonged to the Don Johnson/Sonny Crockett school of speaking. If you call all the guys Bubba and all the girls Darling, it makes it a lot easier, especially when you can’t remember someone’s name – something I run into more now than I used to.

I was just wondering if you had long, slimy whiskers when you were a kid.

(Grinning, ducking, and running; laughing and zig-zagging all the way!)

JD

PS. Hmmm. Maybe those people who don’t indicate their name are old enough that they don’t remember it.

PPS. You can call me JD, John, Hey You!, or pretty much whatever you want, but only my real brother gets away with calling me Bubba. The only people who call me Darling these days are waitresses when they’re refilling my coffee cup.
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