re: #332 mph

The overtly hateful discourse engaged in by many of the religious commenters there is painfully obvious and a serious detriment to the site. I’d rather not take part in conversations which require me to swim through a swamp to get through to more agreeable folks.

In a slight, rather half-hearted defense of Hot Air, the software they’re using is not designed to keep that kind of hateful crap under control. They’re getting about the same number of comments there now as LGF (maybe more, since there are two people posting articles), and they have almost no tools at all to keep things together — no ‘report’ feature, probably no quick and easy way to delete comments, etc.

I deliberately designed much of the LGF Blog software to be able to keep a tighter watch on the comments, because the fact is that unless you do, your site will almost inevitably be dragged down by the loudmouths and hotheads. The LGF software is a result of years of evolutionary pressure, resulting in more tools to manage abusive commenters than any other blog software.

The only site that seems to have similar monitoring capabilities is HuffPo — but they don’t use them.