Building and maintaining a high quality comment community is a difficult thing to do, and I’m not sure the sysop blogger has as much control over it as he thinks he does.  Finding a good one is also difficult.  I look at LGF, MM and Hot air, Whittle’s community, and of course many of the forums and smaller blogs, and all I can say is ‘one man’s comment is another man’s slur’.   There are some places I rarely go anymore and when I do I don’t look at the comments… they’ve gotten so out of control and overrun by trolls it just isn’t worth it.  It’s a big internet and there are plenty of places yet to see.  No sense spending time watching food fights and pissing matches/BillH, Free In Idaho! More here.

• The nonprofit newspaper: A business model for dullness/Kevin Richert
• Can't see the forest for the trees/Political Game
• Tuesday Morning Coffee/Unequivocal Notion
• How to make yourself unpopular now/Clayton Cramer
• What is wrong with some people?/2C Etc.

Question: How important is the Huckleberries Online comments feature to you?

• Silent Sarah/Adam's Blog
• Obama urged to appoint salmon czar/Rocky Barker
• Sims & housing/Randy Stapilus
• Idaho: An international id-i-ot?/Dennis Mansfield
• The Nacirema revisited/Morialekafa
• Are rigid liberal Demos blocking Idaho's fiscal progress?/Michael Strickland
• Innovative ideas for education reform/Idaho Values Alliance
• When economics meets art/Idaho Conservation League

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