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A couple of posters at Open Line Online want more “clicks” to remove a comment. I’ve been keeping it at a minimum, because I want the truly inappropriate comments removed quickly. I can restore the ones that are OK, if not truly appropriate, and I do so a half dozen times a day or more.

All this will be moot in a short time. By the end of April we are scheduled to go to a log-in system, where you put in your screen name (which will be registered to you), an e-mail address and the like. The e-mail addresses will stay with us. We’ve never sold our circulation list and we have no interest in selling the e-mail addresses to spammers.

Then we’ll see how it goes. If the comments get more civil, I’ll up the number of people required to remove a comment.

Sorry, but I think it’s better to quickly remove the stuff that is profane, hurtful or excessive than keep intact the latest whine about police, farmers, immigrants, Open Line and so on.

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