Due to some complaints I have received over the past few weeks, I am making a small change to the comment policy. Commenters will have a one-hour restriction on posts, which means that after a comment from a specific IP address gets accepted, it will take one hour before another comment from that same IP address will be accepted. I'm hoping that this will reduce some of the "comment bombing" seen recently on some threads, where one person posts three or four lengthy remarks within a few minutes of each other. Eliminating that will, I hope, make the threads easier to read and produce a better level of debate.

I hope this poses little inconvenience for CQ readers and addresses everyone's concerns in a fair and equitable manner. We've got the best comment threads in the blogosphere, I think, and I want to make sure they stay that way.

UPDATE: I didn't make this clear, but that is one hour for comments on any thread; the only way to control comments is blog-wide.

UPDATE II and BUMP: OK, I listen to my readers. One hour is too long. I've reduced it to 15 minutes, and I'll just remind everyone that brevity is the soul of wit. If I start seeing "Wall-O-Comments" from some commenters, I reserve the right to either reduce or delete posts. Let's see how the 15-minute rule works out for everyone ...

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