Comment Policy

Please leave comments! I love comments. Pretty please?
I want to start by saying I love my readers. I especially love my commenters because they take the time to fill in those annoying boxes and share their wit, opinions, love, and sarcasm with me. I adore my commenters. (hint hint to all you lurkers out there… leave comments! Good things come to those who make their presence known!

But sadly, it has become necessary to post a list of rules on the OEN playground:

  • Anyone may comment as long as they are respectful of my opinions.
  • Be respectful of other commenters, unless they are attacking my character–in which case, let loose.
  • It is fine, encouraged! to play devil’s advocate. Just be wary of stepping beyond “devil’s advocate” and entering “asshole” zone. There’s a huge difference between the two, so hopefully this will be easy to avoid.
  • Advice is welcome. Preaching at me from on top a soap box is not.
  • Please do not post about me on your own blog unless it is in a respectful manner. This doesn’t mean you have to agree with me, it just means you are open-minded enough to see the good with the bad in my blog. And thank you to those of you who have mentioned me in a post and taken the time to send me a link to it. I appreciate your honesty.
  • I often write about friends or people in my life. Do not ever judge or snark on my friends.
  • No witch hunts please. My pussy wields magical powers and I’m not afraid to use them against you.

    • I have blacklisted very few comments in the lifetime of this blog. Please don’t give me a reason to shitlist yours.

    Remember: no one is forcing you to read this blog. If it offends you excessively or makes you uncomfortable, then maybe this is not the blog for you. There are thousands of others, granted maybe not as funny and delightful as mine, but there are many other places to go for good writing.

    Assholes, judgmental charlatans, and narrow-minded slut-calling prudes–kindly move along to a PG 13-rated blog, preferably one that completely agrees with your opinions and therefore eliminates all opportunities to learn more about another’s perspective that may broaden your life scope just a tad.

    Now going back to my happy place. I want to make it clear that I read every single comment made on this blog, even if it’s on a post from a year ago. All new comments go to my email where I save them and often go back to them (unless they’re one of the comments calling me a stupid whore). I don’t read them once, think “oh that’s nice,” and never think about them again. I pay attention. Sometimes one of your comments leads to a whole new post or editing of the current one.

    Which means I take comments seriously, and I hope you do too.

    xoxo
    Vix