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I have a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach right now. I just made a difficult judgment call, and did what I hoped I'd never have to do here. I just deleted two blogposts by Bakersfield.com community members, not because of the content of the original posts, but because the poisonous tone and content of the ensuing comment threads. I copied the texts of the original posts and sent them to the original bloggers so that they may repost if they so choose. But people, this has to stop.
Just for background's sake, you could characterize one post I deleted as having a "liberal" bent, by a "liberal" blogger, and the other as having a "conservative" bent, by a "conservative" blogger. What followed each in the comments, unfortunately, is becoming more and more common here--name-calling and personal attacks, by both "sides" against each other.
I. am. tired. Tired of the sheer meanspiritedness, the...
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