As the person responsible for turning on comments in the first place, I’m a big believer in FrontBurner, and you, dear commenters. I spend a lot of time here at D trying to come up with better ways to do things online. Sadly though, I don’t think this is one of them. Judging from the responses, there are obviously people on both sides of the fence, and rightly so — not everybody plays nice on the intertubes.
What I can tell you is that we’re working on a much improved comment system. And, yes, that includes a transparent moderation policy. As Wick mentioned, we in web have a long list of things to do, but this just made it to the top of mine.
We aren’t going to *change everything* (Tim, I’m looking at you), but I can promise we’ll have a much nicer playground when we get done.
Until then, comments are still flying for foodies, real estate junkies, Texas Rangers fans, and shopaholics.
