Question of the Day - 13 August 2023

Every time a comment is submitted on LasVegasAdvisor.com, we receive an email that shows us the email address of the commenter and the comment itself. 

The comments are posted simultaneously with our receiving the emails; in other words, they're up on the site as we're reading the emails, or before we get to them if we're busy doing other things when they come in.

As the question states and as anyone familiar with QoD (and the LVA forums) knows, we take a decidedly laissez-faire approach to the opinions, beliefs, assertions, allegations, contentions -- in general, asseverations -- of LVA.com participants. We believe in almost unfettered freedom of speech; it's only when things get too personal, nasty, or profane, or the politics get too distracting, disruptive, or disconnected that we have to intervene. In those cases, we deactivate the comment (in web content-management systems, there's no delete button; the comment lives on, it's just not visible). 

Fortunately, 99.9% of commenters on our site are mature adults who rarely come close to crossing our line in the sand, however amorphous it might seem in this answer. By this point in the evolution of digital communication, there's the same kind of assumed "netiquette" that there is in everyday etiquette. And we're blessed by intelligent and lively discussions that rarely get out of hand and require us to take mitigating measures.