Just to make a couple of things absolutely, positively clear, folks:

1. I have only ever banned a commenter from this site once. That person was a particularly charmless and abusive troll, and after I got tired of making fun of it, I went to a great deal of administrative hassle to ban his/her/it’s IP address. It’s a big chore, and frankly I have better things to do.

2. Comments on this site are lightly moderated, mostly because of the incessant drizzle of automated card-game and transsexual p0rn spam posted by some ‘tard who is too cheap to pay for advertising. Comments containing certain words go into the moderation bin until one of us has a chance to review. If your comment doesn’t appear right away, that is where it has gone. It is not personal, and you have not been banned.

3. I don’t care if the discussion gets lively— acrimonious, even. If you dish it out, you should be able to take it and respond in kind. Just keep the flung heavy objects and death threats down to a dull roar, m’kay?

As you were,

Sgt. Mom