Commenting

The S&Blog is off to a terrific start and Leigh's column in particular seems to be generating some great discussion. One suggestion: don't comment anonymously.

Yes, the internet has a great memory and once you write something on it, it is there forever. But that shouldn't stop you from attaching your name to innocuous comments like, "I concur." It's great that people have opinions but they should also feel confident enough to own them. Furthermore, people should know that every comment is vetted and confirmed by the S&B. Deliberately hurtful or nasty comments won't get published, anonymously or not.

Finally, though this is on the world wide web, remember that it is still a Grinnell entity. Kudos to Renata Sancken and kramerpa for their additions to the Grinnell dialogue, because that's what this is. Like letters to the editor or random rants, this is a great way to talk back to the S&B and to Grinnell College as a whole. Exceptional comments, in fact, will be published in the print edition of the S&B, and we are much more disposed to publishing something with a name attached to it.

Thanks for reading and we look forward to some great commenting ahead.