"In the interests of politeness and not taking away legitimate discussion from Dr. Feser's blog, you may only start threads on articles three months old or more. Any threads on newer articles will be closed."

To me it seems that this rule is too cruel both against this forum and against Dr. Feser's blog. Consider the following points.

- Dr. Feser posts very often. Three months old is almost too old to be remembered, and it certainly has been beaten to death in the blog comments by this time. One month should be more than enough.
- Bickering easily occurs and escalates in combox debates. All this - argumented debates and silly bickering alike - are more appropriate in forum posts than in blog comments. Most of it would be better here than there.
- This forum is not very lively. It has a limited number of active participants due to its specific topic. It would do good to have more participants, so that stuff would show up under most recent posts, instead of emptiness.

I don't think Dr. Feser's blog would lose anything by shortening the term in the quoted rule to one month. This forum would certainly gain relevant activity. And one month would be easier to keep count.