Guest Thinkers — September 5, 2010

A comment about comments and commenting

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I know many of you have been a little frustrated by the transition here and especially your ability to leave comments effectively. I understand and appreciate your frustrations – any time there is a change like this, it isn’t really until the shakedown that real problems come out, and that is what we’re seeing. I can give you at least some guidance here if you haven’t figured it out already (however, it seems many of you have).

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