"...The NRA plans to develop a school emergency response program that would include volunteers from the group's 4.3 million members to help guard children..."

Great. A George Zimmerman in every schoolyard.

@1 No more skittles in the schoolyard I guess.

Unrelated tangent:

Why does the Slog comment section include an option to turn 'off' registered users' comments?

What was the use case / scenario for that feature?

@2: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/16…

You really need a photo of that crossing-guard cat. Dude don't need no guns.

I use so I don't have to read spam from completely anonymous people.

Trashy people trolling isn't a discussion, it's trashy people trolling.

@6: Reading comprehension fail.

@6 But his question was why would you turn off registered users' comments, not unregistered ones.

@5 Thanks for the photo. I'm feeling calmer already!

@3

I just tried it. It turns out you still see who the poster is, so it's a way to skip over the Supreme Ruler, NancyBalls, and Ken Mehlman comments, although perhaps it's an impractical solution, since it looks like you'd have to click every single comment that you do want to see.

@9 I see. It might also serve those readers who do not wish to see any comments.

@3: Because some regular commenters have a pretty solid history of not ever contributing positively to Slog.

If this were a moderated forum, they would be given one-week bans pretty regularly due to their disruptions. But while there's no moderator, we can self-moderate by hiding their idiot posts. To whit:

Bailo, because he posts stupid and wildly off-topic things. The less attention people pay him, the worse he gets.

Useless Will in Seattle, because nobody cares about his fatuous pronouncements (e.g "No. x is correct").

Worst Nightmare, because he's just a thirteen-year-old idiot.

The crossing guard cat story was on page A1 of the Tri City Herald, directly below a story that said the NRA wants to put police in schools. I thought it was a nice juxtaposition! Who needs guns when we have cats??

7,8,9, see 11.
Trashy people trolling isn't a discussion, it's trashy people trolling.

@10

Yeah, except that if someone doesn't want to see any comments, they probably not have any use for it in the first place.

@ 2, there are some people (Dan among them) who were adamantly opposed to having registered comments at all, and had any number of silly arguments to justify it. Although they never explained why you could turn of registered comments, I can easily imagine Dan insisting on it as a way of somehow getting his way, even though he was on the losing side of the argument. That's pure speculation, of course.

Here's Sable showing his protective powers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4HYvhy9b…

@16 Oh. Perhaps the intent wasn't to have the registered user's comments hide-able but to instead have the users' 'handles' hide-able, thereby making their psuedo-rank ('registered') indistinguishable from the riff-raffery.

I don't mind avatars, and Slog's use of user's 'bling' is tasteful, but far too many sites incorporate ludicrous add-ons to each user, it's just fucking ridiculous.

#11

Real name, email and zipcode please.

Or else take a ticket from the Kook Pile.

#16

Of course a Google bomber like Dan wants to remain in the shadows.

We don't allow anonymous licenses and car registrations on the highway?

@20+21- You first! I'll be happy to add you to my mailing list for catbox cleaning days!

@20: Gerald Raffe
2001 N. Clark St.
Chicago, IL 60614
312-742-2000

DO IT FAGGOT

Dude: it's soothe. The word you're looking for is soothe. Sooth is a word, but it means truth, as in "Forsooth, writers at The Stranger rely too heavily on spell check!"