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Cat, I see your point about potentially hindering conversation by moderating comments more aggressively, but I would argue that letting the threats and accusations from certain commenters stay on the website has a much more chilling effect.

I also think that the Beacon simply needs to enforce their own published rules to cut down on some of the behavior that we've been seeing on this website.

(Notably, there is nothing in their terms of use that prohibits the use of screen names, and such a policy would be basically unenforceable, anyway.)

And I understand what you're saying about differences of opinion, but there's a lot of distance between two people offering different perspectives and someone threatening another person.

In the end, I'm waiting to see whether someone at the Beacon is enforcing the policies that they set for the website before I decide whether I'm going to pay for it. Showing that they're willing to moderate the website -- before the paywall goes up -- would raise its value to me.