“So, I beseech you: Fix your communities. Stop allowing and excusing destructive and pointless conversations to be the fuel for your business. Advertisers, hold sites accountable if your advertising appears next to this hateful stuff. Take accountability for this medium so we can save it from the vilification that it still faces in our culture.”

Anil Dash offers people who run Web sites and online communities some common sense advice (with some raw language peppered in), and he makes some excellent points. If you run a site and you’re content to just let the comments run rampant with idiocy, you’re part of the problem.