Should bloggers police their own ranks? :: TigerHawk

Cassandra posting at TigerHawk has some reasonable observations about comment sections of blogs.

For background, see this recent WaPo online chat on the subject. Actually, I found the quality of the chat rather low brow, but I did learn what got some readers of a certain WaPo blog so upset and how they reacted.

Aside: It's interesting to me how, in the UAE, Secret Dubai's blog has become the place to meet and comment. It's become a focal point for comments that persists because it is a focal point. How it became a focal point is another story.