IntenseDebate was acquired earlier this year by Automatic, the makers of WordPress, and what you see here is a precursor to what may well become the standard comments system on hosted WordPress blog (i.e. wordpress.com).

I have been tweaking the settings of the new version 2.0 (beta) plugin of their comment moderation system for WordPress for a while. Coincidentally, this new system addresses every single one of the points you raised regarding security, online identity management, voting / popularity ratings and adds a few more features to boot.

Perhaps next time, before you pontificate, it may help to first ask what I'm doing to address any concerns you have and certainly point me to resources and ideas elsewhere on the web that I should take a look at to make this site better.

Coming to what Dayan and Punitam said, I honestly think a lot of people are upset over the current military campaign simply because their days of lecturing to the Sri Lankan people and trying to impose a solution, whilst wining and dining in five star hotels with foreign money flowing into their pockets might be coming to an end. Think about it; what are the ‘peace mongers’ going to do when there is no war? They will have to fold up their institutions and say good bye to their luxurious lifestyle. It’s really no different that the arms merchants who don’t want a war to end because then they would be out of a job.

I have never supported the idea of Eelam, or the means the LTTE has used to go about realising this idea. But we know that the idea came about by unaddressed and legitimate grievances. Insensitive policies, practices and statements of and by the incumbent regime suggest that though it may win the war against the LTTE it is unable to engender the vital, and far more vexed transformation in polity and society necessary to address root causes that gave rise to and inflamed violent extremism in Sri Lanka.

Dayan is convinced otherwise, and frankly, I hope I hope he’s right. Let’s bookmark this thread and revisit it say a year hence?

The other points I’ve addressed in my article. There are always grey areas, as the Bush administration discovered the hard way.

Sanjana

this is a war based on

reason –
1. a 6-12% of population cant ask for 1/3 of a landmass,
2. no one can on any given sunday can standup and say they want to create a seperate country for their people, cutting up a exisitng state.

principle –
1.if we give in to terrorist, then any one with a wepon will take over us.
2.on prinicple, terrorist should not be allowed to win?
3. right is right, and wrong is wrong, there are no grey areas.

why do you imply otherwise???