

Message to online forum participants: Comments going on “pause”
We’ve asked nicely. We’ve begged. We’ve deleted too many posts to count. We’ve banned individual users, then they crop up again under fake names, even though our terms of use require people to post under their real names. It’s like a frustrating game of moderator whack-a-mole. But the vitriol and name-calling in the opinion section’s comment threads have become too