Engadget's blog is now allowing comments again, only two days after Editor-in-chief, Joshua Topolsky, announced that things had gotten out of hand and they were going to stop commenting until things settled down.
 
Well, it appears that things have settled down fairly quickly. Or rather Engadget has found a solution to their problem of getting a lot of "ugly, threatening, and spam" comments.

Topolsky announced on Thursday (Feb 4th) that they have made changes to keep "comments clean and comfortable for everyone who wants to join in the discussion — not just the loudest of the bunch."

Basically, readers of Engadget will now have the option of switching off the comments functionality and Engadget has deployed tools to allow their editors to moderate the comments more "effectively and efficienty".

They've also outlined a lot of ground rules for users. They want comments to be "reasonably polite" and lighthearted where possible. Of course anyone taking personal potshots at others including their editors will not be allowed and that they would delete any comments that were racist, sexist, or obscene.

Hmmm…but even if they allowed "unfiltered" comments, shouldn't Engadget have been doing some of that already? They could have implemented some automated monitoring to delete racial or obscene comments even if they didn't have a team of people monitoring comments.

But anyway, a blog is again a blog on Engadget. So have it and go comment on their site. Be sure to be "lighthearted" too when commenting on their site or Joshua Topolsky may get mad…..