Thanks for all the feedback on the moderating of comments on this blog. I discussed this with my editor this morning and he said he felt we could easily create a “culture of positive energy” here. He pointed out; the comments that have been posted to date have overwhelmingly been helpful and constructive, and I agree with him.

I think enabling comments has added tremendous value to this blog. It’s terrific when someone shows up to support one of the questions writers by sharing their similar experience, or offering their perspective. It is also a great help to me, when people fill in, because besides being limited by the format of this blog, I am working with a deadline. I need to have tomorrow’s blog, ready to go.

So based on this, we’re going to do very little. If a comment is nasty, mean spirited, unconstructive, it will be moderated. Everything else will fly and hopefully we’ll wind up with a blog that is safe, but not sterile.

Thanks again.