In reply to Jeffr0.

Jeff I understand your position, and apologize if I any of my comments have put you into a tough position. I have some more thoughts on ways for comments to be made better / easier - but have not had time to blog them. I will try to get those put into digital paper and invite you to take a gander on those thoughts / idea. Stick with it man, the long comment drama ebbs and flows - and once a few solid arguments are made a few times a small group of commenters will start to just shorten the rebuttal to a few words and it will be understood - like statements like free and is beer, stuff like that.

Not saying that I would use Mao as an argument or saying that others shoud, I would like to point out that in this particular case it is kind of relevant in that many do feel a similar way about how decisions are made and forced upon the masses - and not all the other stuff that surrounds the death and such that most of us think of when those names come up - I also noted that when I was looking at a plugin and researching the team behind it - that I noticed that team was in a country I was unfamiliar with,I think Slovia or something - and I think we need to also take pause and consider that people in part of the world may have a different way of interpreting statements like that. I am sure that people in the US have a different mental / emotional understanding of events that occurred with all that and people who were closer to it one different sides may be different.

doesn't mean that phrases that bring up what many would consider hate speech need to be allowed - after all it's your tavern.. maybe the old boingboing policy of dis-emvowel-ing some portions of comments would be helpful..

In one of my communities we have an issue pop up on occasion when UK visitors use words like fag.. those are generally opportunities to educate - however we do have one consistent troll who knows it's an issue and constantly tried to use the word in various ways to stir controversy and get attention - and so the moderation fro such does get tricky, and that person has been asked to consider the audience and change his language.

Moderation is hard, and global cultural difference do not make it any easier. I have more examples - but I will post them elsewhere and invite you to check them there is you like.