To Christian:
Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment on my blog. Unfortunately, I had to remove it. It was pleasant, did not contain any rude offers to enhance my anatomy or it's performance, links to unpleasant images, offers to get me neat drugs at unbelievable prices, link to Texas Hold 'em or offer me unbelievable stock deals. I even visited your 'Christian' web site, which seemed nice enough, although I don't understand it's purpose other than generating AdSense revenue.
I removed you comment because, despite its pleasantries and wishes for God's blessings, it had nothing to do with the post it was made on. In fact,. it had nothing to do with my site at all. Its only purpose seemed to be to get a link to your site on mine. In fact, I've seen your nearly identical comment on another blog, equally out of context. Sorry, but my comment form doesn't exist to give you an opportunity to link your site and build traffic. It's there to foster dialog and build relationships.
I doubt that you'll be back, so you probably won't read this. If you do come back, you're welcome to join in the discussion on the topic at hand, but not to place an ad for your web page.
That's called 'spam' and it's not a very Christian thing to do.
Thanks,
Salguod
Hi Doug,
I've had one or two of those also. My policy is to delete them.
I also get a few 'drive by discipling' comments from time to time. Those I've refrained from deleting (so far). I try to respond to them although, as you point out, they probably won't be back. Comes with the territory I guess.
Haven't made up my mind on this item yet. I think Christian was by my blog a while back and I let him stay.
I've let far more caustic folks have their word there ... and I always have a nagging recollection of Shimei's cusswords for David, and the king's humility and grace in response.
I guess, to me, folks like "Christian" fall into the same category as the entry for "Earth" in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: "Mostly harmless."
"Mostly Harmless" Heh. Any reference to the HHGTG is a good thing.
I hesitated before deleting his comment, in fact it was seeing his comment on your blog that pushed me over the edge. It was clear that he wasn't interested in the discussion here, only in plugging his site. That his site was of dubious value helped too.
To me this is a little like a guy who comes to your home Bible discussion group only to pass out business cards for his muffler shop. You'd tolerate it once, but you wouldn't leave his cards lying around.
You guys should really check out my site. IT RAWKS!
Okay, I can vouch for Scott, but since he's going to be on hiatus for about a week, maybe you should visit sometime next week.
Granted, the custom CSS is pretty 1337.
Scott's a Dem also so it's all good. ;-}