Christa: This is far too complicated to allow for a free flow of ideas. CB needs a "professional" "Comments" editor to eliminate personal insults and attacks aimed at specific writers not a committee of "raters".  Most other comments should be published to allow for free slow of ideas even if they sound angry or frustrated. Anger is be part of the Community Dialogue. Under your new structure, many of Donald Trump's comments would not be approved by the "committee".  Trump's racist Mexican comments are part of his campaign. They are wrong. But they are HIS. And those comments should be part of the public discourse even if they are (obviously) offensive.  But under your system, the "Committee" would likely NOT print them. And that would be wrong.