By all means copy the image of the globe burning in someone’s hand. To the best of my knowledge it’s public domain clipart.

HOWEVER, many things on this blog are NOT public domain, so please check first if you want to use anything else.

Cheers,
Steve

I also pointed out that I hadn’t deleted anything for months so had no idea to what you were referring. Now you tell me that you are moaning about a comment that was deleted over TWO YEARS AGO.

TWO YEARS AGO!

And you write to me expecting me to instantly know what you are talking about as if I’ve spent the last TWO YEARS glued to my pc just praying you’ll honour me with another visit.

TWO YEARS!!!

Hey, you really set the web alight when you go surfing, don’t you!

Oh, and if you had bothered to check, I did say VERY explicitly exactly why I was deleting posts in a comment on Nov 29th. All you had to do was look at the very next post to the one you are moaning about!

And now you threaten that you won’t return to my blog. Well, when you only visit once every TWO YEARS that’s going to be some loss, but I’ll soldier on.

More worryingly, I have a copy of the original comment you posted just a few days ago before you edited it (a feature my blog allows for your convenience). It does NOT talk about global warming. In fact, it doesn’t talk about anything. It’s another rant. A rant aimed at a blog owner who deleted one of your comments. A rant that someone deleted your comment about cannabis.

For anyone who is interested, here’s the comment Paul didn’t want you to see:

“This so bogus. No advertisement at all, just the truth about Cannabis that the moderator won’t allow through. Shame on you.”

Now, this is just a guess, but it looks like you make a habit of trawling the net, sticking your oar in where it isn’t wanted, then trawling around again months, or in my blog’s case, YEARS later and complaining when your ‘words of wisdom’ aren’t taken as gospel and people don’t bow down before your magnificence.

Here’s a little tip, Paul - next time you copy and paste comments from one blog to another, don’t be too eager to hit that Submit button!

But I digress…

IF – and please note that’s a big ‘IF’, Paul – you had taken the time to get to know me and my blog you’d have seen that while I’m a genuinely nice guy who cares for people and the planet, I do NOT suffer fools gladly. So, let me spell things out for you nice and clear…

…this is the point at which I was going to tell you to bugger off and stop wasting my time.

However, I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and in the spirit of goodwill, I ask you to post your ‘essay’ on global warming again.

If it doesn’t breach any of the terms I’ve listed, so it gets through my automatic filters - under 500 words, no offensive language, no more than 2 links, no promoting products, is appropriate to the blog post, etc. - I’ll ensure it stays up.

See above, Nov 23rd –

Yes, it’s YOUR blog, but if people are invited to comment, and take the time to post on YOUR blog, then it’s rude to delete without a reason.

I posted an essay specific to the topic of how to stop global warming, but if you’re not ready to consider all solutions, then that is obviously your choice, and I shall discontinue posting here.

But first, answer me one question: if I came around to your house and daubed stuff all over your wall, would you want it removing? Of course you would. And you’d be quite within your rights as it was your property.

Well, guess what. This blog is MY property. I maintain and pay for it. (Yes, PAY for it.) If I want to remove anything, I will. No explanation, no apology, no excuses. If I want it gone, it’s gone.

So please do not lecture me on how rude I am. This is MY blog to do with as I choose.

That said, I’ve had no correspondence with you that I recall.

I’ve deleted nothing from my blog for months.

I honestly have no idea what you are ranting about.

And, as I’ve discovered myself on other blogs, just because you write a comment, doesn’t mean the software actually posts it. Glitches occur without any human interference which means work gets lost in cyberspace.

However, I often delete ‘essays’.

Some people post comments that have only a passing relevance to the subject of the post.
They post comments that are merely advertisements for their site/products.
They post ‘essays’ that are longer than my blog post.
They post comments which ramble on and on without saying anything or are filled with jargon and presented so incomprehensibly that it’s impossible to understand.
They post 1000s and 1000s and 1000s of words that no one could ever have any interest in reading except they themselves.

Unless such a comment is mindblowingly good, I will not allow it to stay on MY property.

If you posted something fitting any of those criteria, then, yes, I deleted it. And now you know why.
Steve

I didn’t mean to suggest that our only hope for salvation was in technology. Being restricted to how much I can cram into a single post, my regular readers will know that my posts often discuss humanity evolving as a cultural being, not just as a technological one. If everyone was fed, clothed, sheltered, etc, it would mean there had already been a major shift in our communal worldview, which would imply we’d learned enough that technology would not be our only choice for a solution.

Yes, you’re right about the problems or corporations - the greed and pollution they spread. But isn’t it true that there’s enough food produced in the world to feed everyone? Okay, it’s not evenly distributed - yet - but we don’t need to increase pollution/genetic modification to feed people, just learn to share.

My whole blog is about a holistic approach to… well, every single thing on the planet, really.

And all it would take is a simple change in mind set. We change our minds constantly, every single day of our lives - would one more change be so great?

Thanks for stopping by and posting a well thought-out comment, Deb.
Steve

It’s clearly an advert with the most tenuous of links to the subject of the post.

There has been a spate of advertising on my blog through inappropriate comments with very tenuous links to the subject of this post. I will not allow this.

If people want to make a decent comment and actually talk about the subject at hand, then add a brief remark and even a link to something related that’s fine. Merely saying, ‘Hi Steve, Good post.’ then launching into your promotion is not a proper comment and those concerned know it.

This is partly my fault - I turned a blind eye to one such comment as it was quite subtle - that inspired two other people to think my blog was an excellent promotional tool for their purposes and posted with less and less subtlety.

Commenters who abuse this blog in that way a second time will be banned.

I may agree with your cause or think your product excellent, but I will not allow you to use my blog as a billboard!

Steve