Comment Spam

Normally, I don't like removing comment people have left (unless someone accidentially leaves a duplicate comment, and then I only delete the excess ones). Earlier today, however, I got identical comments on 2 different posts, advocating that people sign up a number of government office and personnel up to get a lot of junk mail, ostensibly as a form of protest. It wouldn't be a very effective protest, and its not an idea I want to support, so I have deleted both of these messages. If more appear, I will delete them also.

Just for clarification, while I generally won't delete comments, I do reserve the right to do so if I feel it's necessary. Having a difference of opinion is fine - I want to get different opinions aired here and am interested in what "the other side" thinks. There are some situations, though, were I may decide it's necessary to delete a few comments - if they are excessively rude, obscene, threatening, "hateful", advocate violence or other potentially harmful tactics or are otherwise abusive. In this case, I consider the tactics being suggested as harassing (and rather counterproductive).

Aside from these two comments today, I've never had cause to remove any others. If you feel my policy is too restrictive, you're certainly free to set up your own site where people can be as obnoxious as they desire - but on this site, I do expect civility.