The problem I have with just screening the comments is that now a lot of the explanation is gone, so people coming in late don't have the full context. I see a lot of "if something is public it's linkable" in the comments to the poll post, and while I generally share that, I did speak up because of the particular details of this situation. But it's good to leave out the identifying details. I think batwrangler's doing a really good job in those comments of explaining the general context of LJ 10+ years ago, though.