Our latest comments policy also failed to work. It required that Adam Horowitz and I approve every comment before it was posted. This is too large a responsibility (when we are both unpaid and howling under the lash).
Comments are vital to the life of this site. Most of our commenters are great. Many of them bring insights to issues that the writers can't bring. We need to keep the comment section alive, in spite of the vandals who have sought to destroy it by impersonating people and trotting out profanity and racism.
Our new strategy is to adjust the Intense Debate software so that it functions socially: all comments will be posted, but if an offensive comment is reported by several other readers, it will be automatically stricken.
We need your help here. Many readers turn to the comment section regularly to speak out or to learn from others. Can you help us by reporting foul comments? Thanks.
