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The comments section of Salon used to be one of my favorite places to go for either more information or different points of view on an article's subject matter. Often the letters contained more value than the actual articles.
Sadly, Salon's letters section has attracted a bunch of moronic, know-nothing hate mongers from the lunatic fringes of the radical right who apparently have nothing better to do than spend their days hopping from site to site and attempting to engage otherwise intelligent, thoughtful folk (from both the left and the right) in flame wars, and making the comments sections virtually unreadable.
More and more web sites have instituted a click box "Ignore this person" in their comments section. I certainly wish Salon would do the same. The feature could be improved by adding "Ignore this person and replies to their comments" option to also skip over those otherwise thoughtful and civil commenters who are naive enough to respond to their noxious flame bait posts.
