I admit, half of the comments on this site are way off base, crazy, juevnile, offensive, debateable, or stupid. At the same time, the other half are informative, great, insightful, or revealing. Half the comments are disgusting the other half are inspiring. Either way, I learn more. One thing I know it is always real and there is always good debate or humor. That is why I love this site and the direction it is going.
Apparently, lots of peope agree with me. When I first started this blog, it was just me telling the Internet world how I felt about high school sports. For about the first year, I was lucky if 2 or 3 people commented on a post. In fact,the first two weeks of writing posts (10 posts total) in June 2007, I had a grand total of 1 comment.
Now you guys are going gangbusters with your comments. I can't keep up with all the comments because there are so many of them. The Standing Ovation in a Loss post has over 71 comments as of this writing. This site had a 27% increase in page views for the month of October over the same month last year.
I think one of the biggest reasons people like this site is because for the most part anything goes on the comments. People have critisized me for this, but I rarely edit or delete comments. This allows people to freely express themselves without fear of retribution. Good, bad, or ugly (and in some cases really ugly) - almost all comments stay and I allow readers anonymity.
At the same time, I know some people hate this site because of my hands off, limtied rules approach. See, unlike other places (school classrooms, other sites, traditional lamestream media), I encourage people to say what they want and rarely censor what they say- even if I don't agree with half the stuff.
This website represents the freedom of speech as given to us by the First Amendment. Some want to take that freedom of speech away from you. It is because they want control. They want control of the narrative and control of lives. But I promise to everyone that as long as I am running this website, I will always fight for that right.
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