Commenting on blogs means never having to say you’re sorry
Popular SF blogger John Scalzi has been receiving a flood of odd requests lately: those asking him to remove old comments of theirs from his blog posts. His answer? No.
Philosophically, I’m of the opinion that people need to own their words, and yes, that includes the words that they toss off in a comment section of a blog. I’m also of the opinion that people need to realize that barring some horrible catastrophe that will mean we all have bigger problems, the Internet is forever, and anything you display on it will be archived in one form or another, until the end of time and/or electricity.
Personally, for me it’d depend on what kind of mood I was in when the person emailed me. I’m notoriously bad about answering emails from my readers, so the chances that I’d take the two or three minutes to locate the post and delete it are slim.
I agree with John Scalzi. Those comments may damn a few but they should have thought about it before setting it to ’stone.’
So for you, it’s a matter of laziness and not principle? Strangely enough, I can respect that.
But I would argue that not enough comment systems have an “edit” function.