re: #13 Rightwingconspirator

This was well before my time here. Still, I find it really telling how willing the public fringe is to go so angry, so vile, and insulting. We see this at blogs, & ordinary news sites with a comment feature etc. Either real time moderation will get real people assigned with the costs that entails, or many sites should simply not allow comments. Sites as obvious as CNN down to your friendly area political blogger.
Frankly I almost never read the comments anywhere else. Certainly no where they are un moderated. I’m just not willing to sort out the garbage on my own.

The only way to prevent the crazies from taking over is to exercise strong moderation.

And if you do that, you’d better be prepared to be vilified and smeared all over the Internet, because the crazies are obsessively vindictive.