How to Deal with Weird or Nasty Reader Comments

When to dive in and when to walk away

Back in the mid-1990s when I launched my first site on the World Wide Web, I was so thrilled! The input came via email, because I didn’t know how to code a comment functionality into the site. And wow, were these people thoughtful. The comments were often from moms and dads, telling me how much they enjoyed sharing my science stories with their kids (th…