Reasoned Discourse

At the Denver Post. We're all familiar with this sort of policy in which dissenting views are systematically deleted from commentary, but here that policy has been raised to an art form.

Want to comment? Fine, just register. O.K. so I registered and commented.

Can't see your comment? Read this:

Hello. It's not an accident. Your comment isn't showing up because we only publish certain comments on our article page (Note: All comments are published on the article's corresponding forums page).

Note: The article in question does not appear on the forums page.

We do this to make sure new members aren't spammers, or someone who we banned and came back to post more of what we banned them for on our site.
To do this, we have filters on our comments so that only commenters who meet these requirements have their comments show up on the article page:

1. Have been a member for a minimum number of days (the minimum's fewer than 30, more than 15), and,
2. Have posted more than 15 comments.

Once you meet those requirements, you'll show up (provided you have fewer than two recent warnings on your record). You'll know your comments are showing up on the article when you see the "Certified Commenter" designation appear next to your name in your comments in the forums.
Also, we only publish the seven newest qualifying comments, and the seven oldest qualifying comments.
If you have any more questions or complaints about this policy, post them in the comments below. If you have questions about a specific comment of yours, please include a link to the comment in question.

So if you post enough comments, which will never appear, you will eventually get published. Briefly. Maybe.

Better to post a link to the article on the blog and comment there.