Todd’s comment caught my attention because if you read the comment of the “young person” to whom he referred, there’s no way to arrive at the conclusion that he “just sounds like a brainwashed Christian camp graduate.” Furthermore, Todd’s gratuitous insults appear to be nothing more than an attempt to make it look as if he has something to say when he actually does not.

This made me suspect the comment was nothing but a more sophisticated version of “spam.” By making it appear as if he had something to say when he actually did not, Todd got past the normal spam filters.

On the off chance that Todd is not really intending to be a spammer, but is just himself guilty of the very things of which he accuses the “young person,” I decided to remove the links Todd included and (having learned it by following the links), I simply added his first name in place of the “article category” name he had listed.

That way, if Todd actually intended his article here to contribute to a conversation, others will have it (or have at it) and it may have that effect.

I’m fairly tolerant of what’s said in comments posted to this blog. I’ve never actually censored people for taking issue with what I say, or with what anyone else says, even when they make emotional and uncivilized comments. Spam, on the other hand, is not tolerated on my blog.

Links to other websites are left intact when those links are a part of a regular (i.e., non-spam) comment. When it looks like people are just posting things here to try to provide another path to their own website, rather than contribute to conversations here, those posts are usually deleted.

Because Todd’s note looks like it’s a useless and ignorant concatenation of words, and the links provided neither seem to be connected to what he said, nor contribute anything to the conversation here, they have been removed. Because his comment resembled some other non-spam comments in that it was only a useless and ignorant concatenation of words, the comment itself was allowed to remain.