Keeping Things Civil
Posted by Matt
Blogs for Bush
I'd like to expand upon Mark's post yesterday about the "meanness" of liberals... particularly the ones that come on this site and express themselves.
While I've never had a problem with diverse opinions being expressed here, over the course of several months, I've gotten several complaints from regular visitors who are fed up with the blatant disrespect and negativity of liberal commenters (or trolls) contribute absolutely nothing of value to the discussion/debate within the comment threads. Multiple points of view are fine, and I'm glad to see so much discussion happening here. But it's becoming clear that there are a few people who have no interest in actual debate, and choose to dumb the discussion down to "I hate Bush," "you dumb neocons," and sometime more vulgar attacks that are simply not welcome here.
Mark and I have have been quite patient and forgiving recently, but as both of us have jobs, often our lack of time to moderate comments results in things being published that probably shouldn't have been.
As a result, the comment policy will soon be rewritten, and efforts will be made to have it strictly enforced. This is not about censoring different views, this is about maintaining respect and decency in the comment threads. So, from this point on, we are demanding that people make an honest effort to keep the discussion/debate here civil and decent. This weekend (starting today), a moderator will be monitoring the discussion in the comment threads, and those who are determined to be deliberately ignoring this plea will be dealt with appropriately.
This is not something we like to do. There are plenty of commenters (both left and right) who do contribute to the debate in a respectable way. There are some, however who do not... and they will be dealt with appropriately.
I hope people think about this, and change their behavior accordingly if this applies to them (and I know they know who they are) and we can keep the discussion going with a new civil tone.
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