What is disturbing to me about blog comments is...
The fact that the power and weight of words is and continues to be amazing, they can be used to heal or to divide, hurt or give comfort. They can teach, inspire, and change lives. What they should not be is manipulated. My father raised me to not commit to paper words I might later regret. I try in my personal and professional life to adhere to that standard. What I have noticed in this day and age, is people are quick to fire off an email and or text in the heat of the moment full of the instant emotion they experience causing regret to later seep into their consciousness. The damage sometimes cannot be undone.
What causes me great concern is that on these keen blogs, is that ones comments can be manipulated and changed by the person whose blog you responded to. That disturbs me greatly that words attribued to YOU may not have been the words that you did write or type.
By all means keep the ability to delete comments, but REMOVE please the ability to CHANGE and MANIPULATE words that will be taken as written by someone else when YOU the BLOGGER has changed them YOURSELF. That is a situation that could create a BIG problem for the person who made the comments and that person may not in fact be responsible for the words that are attributed to them.
Words have consequences, I have no problem paying for the words I say or write but ONLY if I have in fact written them...
Joan