My Fellow Bloggers,
Today is an historic occasion here in the Blogosphere. What I am about to publicly reveal has been a closely guarded secret, years in the making. It was recognized, long ago, that we had a problem in our discussion threads, an intolerable problem that all too often made any real, constructive discussion here--and across a whole host of other blogs--virtually impossible. Although not attributable to any one blog, group, or person, it collectively became known as "The Darrell Problem", whereby any discussion thread--no matter how focused--could easily be derailed into pointless squabbling and bickering by only a handful of inflammatory, tangential and offtopic comments, without regard to their informational content. Today, we have the solution to that problem.
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