So we eventually chose to turn off comments until we can come up with a better way to handle situations like this, where we have a significant amount of people who refuse to abide by the rules we set out.
And what "better way to handle situations like this" than to turn the WaPo blog back on? Make up your mind Jim. This contradicts what you said earlier about point #1 that you and WaPo deny on:
I'll address the two main points being made, that 1) we're afraid of being criticized and, 2) that were no personal attacks, profanity or hate speech in any of the comments.
Why the 2 - 3 days shut down until you can figure out a "better way to handle situations like this"?
The comments in WaPo showed much of the readers' disgust of what Deborah Howell wrote about the Abramoff's scandal and WaPo's attempt at moderating the blog where Jim Brady finally yanked the whole thing because of so-called reems of "profanities" gracing the blog comments or because comments did not "meet washingtonpost.com's standards for community interaction." It has since been turned on. Some previous comments may not be there.
I did previous had the Yahoo cache of the WaPo blog but it has since disappeared detailing the comments. But WaPo Lies and Democratic Underground still have most of the WaPo blogs archived. Time to compare notes now on which comments were deleted with the WaPo blog comments now turned back and see which comments are missing and whether those comments really violated WaPo's "standards for community interaction." And what would those standards be, Jim Brady?
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