When talking to school board members from across Florida the other day, I heard many gripes that blogs, including ours, weaken our content by allowing untrue reader comments to remain published as if they were true. They also didn't like the hateful things that many readers say.

Hillsborough board member Jennifer Faliero, who attended, later sent me an e-mail that said, in part:

"Two suggestions; the St. Pete Times establish policies governing the use of
unregistered bloggers and force people to register and implement an approval
process for live comments to be reviewed before going live. This can be done at
home by a staffer for round-the-clock monitoring.

"The second involves
you and taking a more active role in removing content you otherwise would not
print."

Faliero also wrote that some elected officials would be pushing for better laws regarding blog oversight.

"This is a policy issue which will spark lively debate; our private lives and futures are at stake and people are just fed up with the horrible things being sent out over the Net from reputable companies giving discontents a platform."

Valid point? Let's hear it, all you commenters.

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