hhhDear Readers,

Thank you for your feedback on how to change our comment system–the knowledge out there is pretty impressive. Although various digg/bury and registration systems are intriguing, we’ve decided to keep it simple for now and stick with the system we described originally. Starting with this post, if you click on one comment, the rest of the comments in that thread made from the same IP address will be highlighted in yellow. (That means no more conversations with yourself. Yeah, you know who you are.) However, this doesn’t have to be the end of comment reform; if you guys hate it, we’ll keep tinkering.

Also, we realize that just one comment can be as inappropriate as many. As such, here are some new ground rules. You’re free to post whatever you want, but know that your comment will be deleted if:

1) It contains a full name, at the request of the one named.

2) It contains ethnic, gender, or sexual-orientation slurs.

3) It contains deliberate and malicious untruths, or irrelevant and ad hominem attacks.

4) It’s blatantly insensitive to recent events (i.e. VATech jokes).

Finally, if you continue to spew bile, we have no problem with banning your IP. If you have concerns, please let us know at bwog@columbia.edu.

Missing y’all already,

Bwog Staff