He is usually too rolling stoned to know

This seems unlikely, Homer, and it’s your “Sheil” (as he was frequently wont to observe) that you won’t be going into.

I am sorry that Ken Parish has left. I thought he was a thoughtful
person and I am sorry that I may have irritated him from time-to-time.

He generally didn’t irritate me – I just thought he was a smart guy.

I guess Jason will be doing that Soon.
I had better stop as there will be too much Gruening going on and there is no Honnor amongst bloggers.

Regarding private email communication, I don’t do private unless the matters are truly private. This was a public stoush and I resorted to making my case on catallaxy, as I wasn’t able to make it on Troppo.

I’m rather glad this matter has now been thoroughly aired and other people can make up their own minds about the merits. Our row does bring to the fore the role comments have in the blogosphere, and the extent to which they should be controlled by a blog proprietor. I’ve always thought that robust interaction is beneficial to blogs, but not all people agree. Professor Bunyip (retd) was a really excellent blogger who simply eschewed comments. That resulted in vigorous commentaries on other blogs.

Maybe I’ll regain the perspective and sense of fun after a long break and feel able to post again. I hope so, because I’ve actually gained a huge amount of fulfilment out of blogging along with the anger and anguish and depression, and despite my deep reservations about the wider political/sociological value of the medium. In any event, thanks again and best wishes to all. I’m especially heartened by Joe Cambria’s approach, and thank him specifically because I did find many of his deleted comments very distressing indeed. Maybe Nicholas might consider whether JC should be removed from moderation (if he’s actually in moderation – I don’t recall doing it but his comments certainly seem to be excluded most of the time). However, that’s a decision for Nicholas. I’ve offered to continue helping behind the scenes because there’s quite a bit of work in running a popular blog and I don’t want to see Troppo die because Nicholas doesn’t want to handle the burden alone. But the managerial decisions for the foreseeable future are his.

On the substantive point, I really think you need to re-read the post.

Mark, we’re not so concerned with what goes on at Catallaxy.

Nicholas, I don’t know if I expressed myself as well as I could have, as I was writing on the run, but all I was saying was that I wasn’t sure what the issues were and lacked the time to follow the links to find out. But I’d prefer to stay out of metablogging on this thread and just leave my contribution as good wishes for Ken and a hope that he reconsiders.

That’s apparently the position now, but it needs to be made clear that Troppo banned my IP for a number of days (I didn’t record the actual number) after the objected to comment was deleted. I kept testing the comments facility daily until eventually I was allowed back.

I hope he lobs in and does them when he wants to.

And, as someone said up there, an election is coming and none of us will be able to stay away from our keyboards.

Actually, Nic, there is only one place and we all know where that would be.
I sent a strongly worded email after my name had been mentioned a few times and I felt it was unfair to be placed in moderation. If you’re named, you should have a right of reply.

Correction….. I was placed on moderation here and at that another spot.

Nic, hows this for a deal. You will never be broadsided by me at the Cat again if it makes you feel a lot better. No tongue in cheek stuff, but I will disagree with you ( in a nice way …. or as best I can) if I feel it is warranted.

I have always maintained you are a nice person…. right from the beginning of our stoushes.

You may want to correct that accusation above?