I can't believe that the rotund, four-eyed Francois and the creepily veg-obsessed Portnoy are the only losers to have replied to what I think is a crucial post. So I'll be loser#3.

It would be a huge mistake to eliminate personal invective from the site. To my mind, literary feuds are better reading than literature itself-you get to indulge your sick and filthy taste for gossipy carnage while maintaining an aura of high-mindedness.

Look, the world would be poorer if it lacked Wittgenstein/Popper, McCarthy/Hellman and numberless other instances of theoretical dispute framed in personal invective. I say let this great tradition live!

What I could do without is the truly sociopathic, Little Green Footballs sort of stuff that somehow slithers into Jewcy from time to time. You know, "The Arabs are not human, let's kill them" sort of thing. These posts are despicable not only for the content, which is of course creepy and depraved, but because of their literary and philosophical emptiness.

So I guess I'm calling for letting a thousand flowers bloom, just not the carnations, i.e., the boring, empty ones. This makes the job of the Jewcy gatekeeper much harder, of course, since it requires judgement of a highly subjective sort.

I'd rather read and engage with a wrong-headed, distasteful post which personally attacked a contributor but which actually argued a point with flair than a piece of feelgood, inoffensive boilerplate.

So come on, you snivelling little scumbags. Join the conversation!