Beginning yesterday, I have adopted a new policy on comment moderation. I have always moderated comments on this blog to prevent inappropriate comments. I have not moderated for relevancy of the comments to the blog entry involved. The result is that the comments sometime veered into issues that were not relevant to the blog entry involved. I have decided to restrict comments to comments that are relevant to the particular blog entry. There are several reasons for this. First, it is distracting to readers who usually read a blog entry and its comments because of the topic of the blog entry rather than off topic diversions of other readers. Second, as best I understand how the search feature works in this blog, it picks up only the blog entry itself and not the comments. Thus, off topic comments will be orphaned unless appended to a relevant blog entry. Third, and related, by appending comments to blog entries for which the comments are relevant, the comments can be most useful to all readers and are likely to draw more useful responding comment.
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