You won’t find anything like that if you search the EXODUS site. I’m not suggesting that they condone it, only that they are not very public in condemning it.

Knock yourself out — here, take this hammer.

Not sure we’d have a comment on his editorial policy therefore Jim. Oh, wait… just a minute… yes…

Also noticed Wayen Besen has recently made a similar announcement (although the comments here beg no comparison to the one’s over there. Eye watering and ear curling, and more than a few apparently orginating from Atlanta for some odd reason /smirk).

I’ll have to ask — ’cause it’ll play on my mind otherwise — but you and Wayne haven’t had a head-to-head and made a mutual decision about how best to prolong some commercial blogging scam have you!!!

PS: does name calling include “sinner”?

Comments like letters to the editor would actually be fine. However, I think the dynamism of just chatting is great too if it can be respectful and to the point.

Also, I think the time wasting element of it all is that I get many requests to back up various points that I have already spoken to in past posts or I do not have time to do. As I conceive a blog, it is a place of hopefully informed opinion but not a peer reviewed outlet. I shoot from the hip sometimes and have backed off of some things because commenters have provided alternative ways of thinking that are challenging. So I will see how this works.

For one, I’m not sure what role comments can best play on a site in which such divisive issues are covered. I think comments add significant value in Ex-gay Watch, for example, but that is due, partly I think, to the tremendous self-policing that the site operators and regular commenters put into it. But it does take time an denergy/ I barely have time as it is; I don’t even know where to begin when it comes to comments.

I think your ground rules are good. I’d be interested in seeing how much time and effort it takes on your part to enforce them. Also whether you think in the end if a constructive dialog is achieved, especially when comments may be held in moderation for a considerable amount of time.

My guess would be that moderated comments may take on more of a “Letter to the editor” quality, rather than conversations back and forth along a thread. For example, assuming grantdale has already offered their opinions on this thread, I have no way of either adding or countering anything they said, because I haven’t seen them yet.