'No comments' sez SBC Today blog

[William Thornton]

[William Thornton]

[Haruo]

And if they do not allow comments, why do they need to block Burleson's IP addresses? Trying to keep him from even reading??

[Jonathan]

[William Thornton]

Well, I took the time, to view Wes Kinney's video explanation of 'no comments' and heard him say the following (allowing for Wm's paraphrase):

1. We're all pastors and we don't have time to fool with your comments
2. We value conversations and have benefited from the same over the past year
3. Henceforth, we will point you to conversations elsewhere

Makes perfect sense to me: "We value conversations, but not in our comment stream. We value conversations but not with Wade Burleson and his ilk. We value conversations but don't really have time for such on our site." Yeah. Quite clear.

I admit that there are a handful of people who need to get a life outside of blogdom where they are ubiquitous in exhibiting their brilliance in comment streams but I think SBC Today just blew off a few toes with this. The explanation is worse than the act.

I am fairly up to date with this computer but found it highly inconvenient to take time to download Kinney's video. He could have typed it in sixty seconds...but, I know, he's a busy pastor and I am presumably an unbusy pastor.

[Haruo]

[William Thornton]

I just swapped email with Wes Kinney who added a bit of detail about what I describe above, the handful of folks who seem ubiquitous in their commenting and I have some sympathy for him if they feel the need to moderate all of that stuff. He also said that there is no IP blocking at SBC Today although there was for a few days. I don't think that I am making public anything that he wants kept private. At any rate, he made more sense in the email than on the video. Still, it's tough to speak of online conversations when you deny comments.

[Gary]

[William Thornton]

I'm guessing that things will change on SBC Today. I can see the guys getting fed up with taking time for the handful of oddball commenters, but still...