Repeat Posts

As you know, we love to have a good dust-up in the comments section. There's no better way to express your opinion and sharpen your mind than to engage in dialogue. For that reason we love posting comments especially the ones we disagree with.

However (and you knew this was coming), someone has gotten the idea that repeating the same comment over and over and over again, somehow makes their point more valid. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, even if the point is a good one repeating it again and again doesn't make it any more persuasive. More importantly, it keeps an interesting discussion from developing by clogging up the comments section with the same - and we mean the exact same - point.

Understand, we'll allow some duplication assuming that there might be a couple of posters who share the same point of view. But... duplicate posts are paired down to one post whenever we encounter them concurrently. Once we get tired of reading the same post over and over, then we'll reject all of them.

So along with keeping language to a PG-13 (OK, sometimes R) rating, know that repetition is gonna get weeded out - even if we agree with the point being made. Them's the rules folks, now have at it!

Comments Are Back

We've decided to re-institute comments after some careful consideration and a little cleanup work. We're still in the process of removing content that just doesn't meet our standards of good taste even if those comments include solicitations for cookie recipes. (We'd forward those particular readers to epicurious.com, a site where your sweet tooth can be satisfied without boring the rest of us with your culinary ignorance.)

Over the next few weeks we'll be working to remove the offensive and the just plain stupid. In the meantime we'll being moderating the comments on this site. You'll still be able to post anonymously but we'll only allow posts that have something to do with the topic at hand and don't include language that would make a sailor blush because that won't make the cut either. Feel free to disagree with us or with any commenter just do it within the bounds of good taste. So let the games begin... again.

To Comment or Not to Comment - That is the Question

As you know Eye On Albuquerque has always allowed unfettered comments. We've always enjoyed a good dust-up and giving our readers the ability to express themselves (right or wrong) has at the very least been entertaining and sometimes very informative. Our policy has been to allow people to say what they wanted to say even if it made little sense, defied logic, was off topic, or even flat-out nuts.

We always tried to keep an eye on the running dialog and have deleted a comment or two that were in bad taste or were obnoxiously hawking T-Shirts or pushing cookie recipes. The comments themselves were always from our readers who were solely responsible for their content (or lack thereof).

However, we've been increasingly concerned that some of the comments have not only left topic but left reality and far too often the realm of good taste.

So in order to avoid becoming the on-line version of the pay-per view Jerry Springer show, we've disabled the comments - at least for now. We may reactivate them at a later date and of course, we're more than happy to publish well written commentary in our Letters to The Eye section.

In fact we'd love to hear your opinion on the subject. If you'd like to see the return of our comments section, shoot us an email at editor@eyeonalbuquerque.com.