The people who participate in the comments section here at With Leather represent way less than 1%  of the site’s readership, so I don’t know why I spend so much time taking care of it.  Nevertheless, the rest of this post addresses commenting issues.  Everyone else, please stand by for NFL coverage.

So, uh, what the hell happened on Friday?  I take one day off and the comments go crazy with expatriates from WWTDD.  For you Durdenites who have come to With Leather: you are welcome to join the party here, but realize that this is a different forum with different guidelines.  After all, Sudanese refugees who come to America don’t get to keep living under Sudanese law.  You can’t just wander the streets killing cows with assault rifles and pressing children into military service.  Yet.

The thing is, coming to WL isn’t like coming to America.  It’s like coming to an extremely cool fascist country.  Everyone seems totally friendly and fun, then you turn the corner and there’s a public execution.  That’s how it is here.  Everyone’s all on the same page here: nothing gets taken too seriously, everyone manages to keep the discussion more or less on topic, and in general the commenters sound like literate, intelligent people who just happen to like crude humor.  People who don’t play along generally swallow their own tongues after the commenters have their way with them, and particularly resilient trolls get banned.

So there ya go.  Everyone’s welcome to stick around and participate, and With Leather is flattered you’ve chosen it as your new online home.  Just keep things funny and on-topic, and you can stay as long as you like.

**sharpens guillotine**