Thanks so much to all the writers – this blog is a (financial) life saver and I really enjoy the daily butt-kicking this gives me to sort my finances out!
THANK YOU!

And… I like the garden posts and note that they are generally on Saturdays, so it’s a choice between a garden post or no post. So I respectfully disagree with the commenter cited.

We reserve the right to correct grammatical and spelling errors in comments on our blog. If that’s wrong, we don’t want to be right.

I don’t envy the kinds of comments that you must receive sometimes.

But I filter if somebody’s being a jerk or if I think they’re spreading dangerous misinformation (“buy my multi-level marketing plan” or “sell all your stocks because the market is crashing”, etc.).

This may or may not be my only post to ever make it onto comments, this part is up to you. At least I know now that you do look at them.

All my past comments have been a negative response to some POINT another person made(not the person).

I guess this blog is simply not for me as my definition of impassioned debate is not allowed. You have every right to run your blog however you see fit by your definition.

I see statements that are illogical but polite or even off topic to have just as little place in comments due to being acts of abuse to people not allowed a passionate response. Best to limit them to prevent feeding trolls.

Do you filter at all based on perspective and content such as a point strongly differing from your own or just tone of the text?

It would be nice to see a response to the last question as I have not had the fortune to filter through the mix of idiocy and “aggressive” disagreement you must filter out.

I know when I read text I disagree with it often sounds angry to me.

I wonder if there are any studies on whether our perspective determines the perceived tone of an author?

Thank you very much for the fun time so far whenever an article steeped my interest.

I look forward to your response.

Obviously cursive is a pretty narrow field to preserve, but I think it’s worth it.

It’s a good reminder that we’re all humans out here.

I apologize to those who have had poor experiences there.

Thank you for screening the negative nellies.

After that, I sort of thought …hmm..why am I bothering?

So after reading this post, I’m writing wondering if something is glitching on GRS end?

All I asked was how did you know how much stuff was enough for you? Then I got criticized on why I should care what other people do. Because I was curious on how people psychologically reach that point. That’s all I wanted to know.

I just post here in the comments section, they seem to be moderated better. I wish there was a way to block rude people so they wouldn’t post on your threads at the discussion forums and I wish there was a way to delete rude people from your own threads.

On Yahoo Answers if a person is rude to me, I block them and report them for rudeness, or if they’re really rude I block them, delete the entire thread, and re-post the same question so their rude comment isn’t on it. I’m not against different opinions but I do hate it when people are nasty just for the sake of it.

A lot of people online feel the need to say rude comments that they wouldn’t normally tell a person in real life. Sometimes I think we should get away from screen names and use real names online, so we can be held accountable for the things that we say.

Maybe our ISP #s should be posted too, that way we can complain to an ISP provider if there is a case for cyber bullying. I know that’s going too far but sometime I hate the anonymity and the nasty attitudes that come from anonymity.

Glad to see I’m not the only one setting boundaries.

It is unfortunate that you even have to enforce standards. I often wonder why people are not just civil without it being the “rule”.

Keep up the good work you do, please.

Dan Murphy

I really enjoy reading the comments because people often contribute a lot of good ideas and considerations. Excessive negativity and personal insults are a turnoff and would make me stop reading if they were there.

You bring up an interesting point on the “cursive” skills for your grandchildren. I grew up learning cursive in 2nd grade, (I’m 35) but I hear they are starting to teach typing skills very early now rather than cursive.

I don’t really see a need for children to learn cursive today, and think learning how to type accurately and fast is a MUCH more vital skill than learning to write cursive.

Obviously, learning how to read and write is vital, I just think that legible handwriting of normal script rather than cursive script is enough (unless you want to become a caligrapher and do fancy invitations and announcements the old fashioned way as an artist, of course).

Most people’s cursive hand writing is nearly illegible in any case, I prefer when my boss/co-workers write in normal, non-cursive script. When I was an auditor and making hand notes, I never used cursive for fear of being illegible to the reviewers as well.

Just my opinion, interested to hear your view on why cursive should be mandatory (other than “that’s what I learned” remembering that most of the men my father’s age never learned to type at all, which is quite embarasssing for them today to hunt and peck keys).

To JD,

I love the comments on your website, it’s one of the least hostile places around and the commenters are nearly as insightful as yourself.