Currently, The Sexist has no comments policy. You write a comment that isn’t trying to sell me penis-enlargement pills, and your words will likely appear in the illustrious forum of the Sexist comments field. Even if your great insight consists only of a racial slur written in all-caps.

This lax approach to comment moderation has, at times, provided a window into the darkest reaches of the Sexist reader’s mind. Take this comment for example, submitted in a discussion of the phrase “no homo”:

Love thy Brother. NOT TO LOVE THY BROTHER! What is the misconception here? YOU’RE GAY, FAGGOT, BITCH ASS, GUNK, FUCKBOY…WHAT THE HELL IS YOUR PROBLEM WITH EVERYBODY ELSE, MR./MISS/MRS. THANG? The general public is fed up with you ass, lip and dick hunting problems. Lets move on!

Or this one, from a user calling him- or herself “Fatties,” on a discussion of Tucker Max‘s feature film:

Stop whining, dykes.

Or how about this one, replying to a story about a transgender sorority member:

I would tell you to bite me, but you might be a fucking “DRAG Queen” I am strictly pussy and I don’t do dicks. For the record, I only date white women, because too many black women are angry as hell. Why are most black women angry? Is this why so many of them are Dykes?

Now, how about this one, weighing in on a Real World cast member’s sexual assault cartoons:

You can have an opinion about what is a “threat” and what isn’t. But those are “fightin’ words” in a court of law. Just like you may think that someone is a bitch or a whore or a nigger, but you actually say that and you’re opening a can of worms that may never go back to where it was when you said it. That’s the world that we live in today, and we live in that world because women think that it’s necessary and there are, unfortunately, certain men who are PW’ed enough to support them. I’m not saying that there aren’t legitimate “threats” but surely we all have different opinions about what they are.

The horror, the horror, etc. And so, in the grand tradition of this comment thread over at City Paper’s news blog City Desk, I ask you: Should this blog moderate comments? If so, what standards should we use to determine which comments fly and which ones don’t? If you comment here—-and especially if you don’t!—-I’d be interested to hear any insights you have into the Sexist commenting experience.

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