VFR update

Comments have been added to these recent threads, among others:

Is it true that the U.S. government is not founded on the Christian religion?
The inescapable relevance of Darwinism
A proposal to achieve Jewish-Christian cooperation in defense of the West
PC in the Air Force, 1980s
First defendant in Knoxville found guilty
Does the BNP oppose Islamization only out of electoral calculation?

Other recent comments are still to be posted. VFR, against my own preference, is going to have to return to automatic comments soon, as the comments traffic has increased beyond my ability to handle them.

Also, due to some tweaking of the site, the articles listed under “Featured Articles” and “From VFR’s Archives” are now displaying again in the sidebar.

However, the Google search utility in the sidebar is no longer working, apparently because it was a Beta version that timed out, but I’ll have a replacement soon.

Meanwhile, here are some upcoming topics:

- Fjordman’s big article calling for an Indigenous European people’s movement;
- Stanley Kurtz’s big article on Mideast tribalism as the key to the Islam problem;
- Paul Gottfried’s article on the demise of paleoconservatism;
- Fallout over British government report saying that the economy is not helped by immigration.

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James M2 writes:

One of my favorite aspects of VFR is it’s uniquely excellent signal to noise ratio. The moderated comments allow you to harness your readers to further the viewpoint and purpose of VFR. Unmoderated comments muddle the message. I would rather see you tackle less subjects less often than see the comments function become a free-for-all.

It would be nice if a compromise were possible in which the most weighty issues continued to be moderated so that the reader was presented with organized discussion, while matters of lesser importance could be put in the free-for-all category so you wouldn’t have to bother with them (if the blog software allowed for this).

LA replies:

I would never allow it to be a free for all. I would still screen the comments before allowing them to be posted.

Your idea of two “levels” of commenting is also something I’ve thought about.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at April 18, 2008 03:55 PM | Send