Trish: Should I Accept Comments?

Trish Gannon/River Journal: A question for you merry Hucksters. Most of you know I’ve started a blog for the River Journal, and I’m getting ready to make it live. And then I come across a link on here to a page of posts from the CDA Press and I had to ask myself, “AM I NUTS?” Really, is this the kind of crap I’ll be dealing with? Has Huckleberries led me down a false path of high expectation regarding the level of discourse in beautiful North Idaho? Seriously, folks, I’d appreciate your advice. You can email me at trish@riverjournal.com if your info is too long for this forum. But man, I don’t want to end up with something like what I saw over there! I believe in free speech, but I don’t believe I have to pay to provide free speech to total idiots. So what’s the solution?

Question: How can Trish avoid a comments section that avoids the pratfalls of the Coeur d’Alene Press comments section?