Typically, one or more responders will put in hours or days of effort to refute those accusations, but the malicious accuser simply goes elsewhere and starts the same process all over again.

We post a blog comments policy. Among other things, we refuse to post comments that contain racist or bigoted ranting, especially the anti-Semitic ranting that seems to be plaguing the blogosphere these days.

We do allow people to use the comments in our blog to level truthful accusations against specific individuals, organizations, or governments. But if those accusations cannot be substantiated, the comment will be either refuted or deleted.

It is up to us to maintain civility in the blogosphere - otherwise, the better part (in both senses of the word) of our audience will depart. To that end, I suggest that bloggers should neither allow false accusations to stand unanswered in their comments, nor let malicious commenters have the last word.

It’s unfortunate that we’re already over 11/12ths of the way through 2007 and we are not even close to solving all of these problems.

Better luck next year?

After using the print.css provided there as a template, I went in my own style.css and found the classes and ids for the sidebar and header and other extraneous items and was able to add it to that existing print.css. Very very good building block for other WordPress bloggers to start making their own print.css.

Thanks again, Lorelle!

After my last comment, I went and did a few hours of research and coding. I’ve now got a pretty good Print stylesheet and am considering removing the Print link (and in the process, saving the load of one plugin!).

Thanks for making me do it :-D.