Due to threats being made anonymously, we’re (hopefully) temporarily turning on comments moderation. In other words, all comments will go into a queue before they’re made public on the site.

Any and all comments–no matter how critical or insane–will be let through as long as they come somewhere close to following our Comments Policy guidelines.

I am sorry it had to come to this. The joys of a public forum.

This article appears in Nov 1-7, 2007.

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  2. Not physical threats, but threats to use different IP addresses and to use false names on comments. That’s bad enough.

  4. Wait — what is a “threat to use different IP addresses,” or a “threat to use false names on comments”? Is there a rule against using a “false name” (what is a false name?), and if so why isn’t it posted in the Comments Policy?

  6. The person was basically threaten to use different IP addresses to attack the site, and threatening to use false names (i.e., saying he was Jim Nintzel when he was not). Hope that clears things up.

  7. Well that person sounds like a putz. Why would somebody want to attack the Tucson Weekly site?

    More importantly, why would anybody in their right mind claim to be Jim Nintzel? Who wants to be that weirdo? Just kidding.

  8. Beats the heck of me, Sam. A fairly recent commenter as of late–you can guess who–just went overboard and started making the threats after I deleted a couple of his comments for violating the Comments Policy. It’s annoying.

  9. Hmmm. Well…..sorry. This is supposed to be fun and lighthearted, not annoying. I am sorry for anything I’ve done to contribute negatively to that as well, by the way.

  10. Sam: Thanks, but you have nothing to apologize for. We want spirited, honest debate here. Disagreements are cool.

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