I usually post my blog comments policy at the beginning of the month for the benefit of new readers. Rather than posting the whole thing again, here is a link to the last time I posted it.
I enjoy reading the comments and it has become more pleasurable now. One of the things that used to annoy me were those commenters who seemed to feel the need to show themselves to be clever at the expense of others, usually by making needlessly sarcastic and denigrating comments.
It is also the case that long time commenters get the know each other and sometimes they will use that knowledge to snipe at another commenter based on their history, just to score a debating point even though it had nothing to do with the current post. It is somewhat like people in long-term relationships who know each other well and will dredge up past statements to try and ‘win’ an argument.
Thankfully, that is not happening anymore.