The online Detroit News and Free Press websites this week moved to what looks like a policy taken up by a lot of publications, requiring comments at the bottom of articles to be linked to Facebook IDs.
I'm sure it won't end all of the idiotic/racist/homophobic/mean comments, but I can see already the discourse is a bit more polite. Before this policy took effect, I just avoided reading the comments because of all the anonymous stupidity and nastiness.
Can I get an amen? Is there anyone who actually enjoyed reading all that nameless venom and thought it added anything valuable to the public discourse?