I would rarely delete a post. Who wants to subscribe to a forum where everyone agrees, basically reading the same post a hundred times. Boring. My previous local newspaper started requiring real names, and the commenters dwindled down to about seven boring people, that really never said anything interesting. Also, online eyeballs were drastically reduced. If one really wants to know what others think about different subjects, one must err on the side of leaving the posts and protecting identities. After all, that's why we have the secret ballot. That's why voting place polls frequently are wrong.
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