Why I moderate comments

Many people feel that moderation of comments of a blog (such as this) is bad practice, and is performed pretty much by people who believe themselves to be the end-all of correctness. Only people who love themselves and care nothing for other people’s opinions moderate the comments on their site. (This observation, anyway, is something I’ve seen in my years as a blog-reader and Twitterer, but I don’t have any direct references to such a belief – I wish I did!)

I do not agree with this.
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