It all boils down to accountability and information wanting to be free as in free speech.

Plus, not deleting their comments usually makes them stay on my turf :-).

So you’ll have to face your censorship logic. If you were right people will be on your side, if you abused then you’ll get hit. bottom line is the whole conversation probably gets better and “fairer”.

I once had to make a printscreen of a submitted but moderated comment, but what a hassle! On particularly paranoid days, I even save the whole page on my HD – keeping that stuff organized is a nightmare, and I feel like an obsessive-compulsive masochist doing that, too.

Cocomment does the same job, but better. It spreads the comment to a wider audience. OK, that’s a disadvantage if you break #6 :-).

Or don’t forget to use CoComment !

Most important rule for me is #6 : don’t let anger answer. That’s specially the step after which I’ve heard people saying “why did I do this?!?”

Like most of us I am listening to a wide variety of people independently from their technorati ranking. But if an obscure guy tries to spread false information it does not really matter, because he won’t touch the community.

can you imagine a world where we would pick up the line only if the caller has a big car?