Where have all the comments gone?

Yesterday was an interesting day. I had two comments which didn’t contribute (positively or negatively) to the posts, but were personal attack hate comments. I was smart enough to figure out that replying to these was the last thing I should do.

After consulting Deane who is a veteran blogger, on what to do about this, his opinion was that I should keep it, as most bloggers do.

I wake up today bright an early as usual, check my mail, and hey! There are two more hate comments on the Say The Magic Word post. I’m thinking, no way. The comments are full of NGO-bashing and death-to-anyone-who-opposes-the-war type of remarks.

So now, I’ve decided to delete hate comments. The criteria for deletion would be simple. If the comment does not contribute to the discussion happening, or of the the comment is just a hate comment, out it goes. Does anyone else have any experience with this?

And if you’re wondering what they were about, the comments were left on the posts about Dayan Jayatillake’s recent Geneva meeting, and  the one on Mahinda Samarasinghe’s statement at the UN Human Rights Commission.