While I recognize yesterday’s story about the crunched Pontiac inflamed the passions of many readers, a few people went a little overboard and turned on other readers with name-calling and rancorous comments, and for that reason, we closed the comments on that story. While we encourage spirited debate in the comments to the stories presented on the blog and in the Hemmings Daily, we also don’t want the comments to degrade into the childish incivility characterized by the rest of the Internet. To that end, we will be more closely scrutinizing the comments on these stories and simply deleting the ones that stoop to name-calling, flaming and other immature behavior.
Also, just a reminder that we do not allow commercial posts of any kind in the blog comments. If you’re trying to sell something, please take out a classified on Hemmings.com.