A Comment about Comments

Dear Commenters:

I am getting complaints again about the overly personalized tone of comments posted here. Let me just repeat what I have said before:

1. I very much hope that people, of all perspectives, will limit their Blog comments to substantive discussion of the issues and not personal attacks against others who choose to comment.

2. I have been asked again, as I have before, to moderate the comments or selectively delete them. I won't do either. I think The Democracy Center already contributes enough time to make this Blog available to all and to allow all to comment. I am not willing on to take on the additional task of moderating comments. Also, if we do so then people will accuse us of censoring comments critical of our work, which we obviously do not.

3. I don't generally read the comments posted here. I do scan them once in a while. It seems like just a few people post 90% of the comments. They might want to start their own Blogs and post their thoughts there. Then those people interested can read them. Readers who do that are welcome to post a link to their Blogs here.

Again, let's make an effort to keep things civil and focused on the issues.

Thank you,

Jim Shultz
The Democracy Center