I am disappointed to hear of comments on the guest blogs that were out of line. That is totally uncalled for and I support the suggestion of banning the IPs. I don’t think you should be spending your time policing every comment.

I found Cassandra delightfully different and I now read SAR on a regular basis. Its good to find another curmudgeon!

I will watch your policies with interest. Please do not send any trolls our way to AB.

I did alaska by boat. Did you go be helicpter to the big ice fields?

We who are about to miss you, thank you.

I’ll leave you and your denizens to more of your nonthinking Group Think.

Us mere mortals deserve our fate. Leave us to our doom, master.

Of course he’ll just go bug someone else. They always do….

Welcome home! Alaska sounds like it was fun.

Yes I liked your guest bloggers but they inadvertantly illustrated how unique, timely, and to the point your insights are (by not being you).

Oh, by the way, support from this quarter for going with the Barry Ritholtz policy.

Comments are a sort of eco-system. I would suggest changing to a monitored system faster rather than slower, because a nasty environment in the comments section will deter commenters that you want as part of your community.

You can’t possibly know what Yves, or anyone else, is thinking.

In fact, the only hard evidence you’ve cited is vauge and circumstantial.

For such grave comments, I think it is at the very least, irresponsible to not cite anything.

Total drive-by, hack-job on your part.

In addition, you’ve paid nothing yet at some point in time, received though-provoking analysis (as you admitted yourself).

That sort of “what have you done for me lately” mentality is scary, to say the least.

Good luck with that.

You’re gonna need it.

Acting as if you’ve no idea that people making non-conforming opinions are regularly and repeatedly called morons, idiots, shitheads, etc., etc.

OK, Yves, I believe you…..

Not only is 90% of your content simply a cut and paste of other people’s work, now we find that you’ve gone straight to Big Picture for your “Comment Policy”.

My favorite is when you write about credit derivatives…. while being…a derivative blog.

No need to ban me, I’m out. I’ll leave you and your denizens to more of your nonthinking Group Think.

This site’s gone from an interesting commentary on financial affairs to Leftist garbage about hating USA, apocalyptic global warming, etc., etc. Even the last 10% that’s supposed to be “original” is nothing but rehashed Daily Kos trash.

So faretheewell Yves, and always remember, when in doubt, WWKD: What Would Krugman Do?

Don’t let the idiots get you down. They outnumber the rest of us.