Chanpon

Recently, one of our authors posted an entry reporting on the death of Jack T. Moyer. This provoked a series of comments bringing to light certain controversies surrounding his life and death that our author had not been aware of. Our editorial committee is divided on our personal positions on the topic, so we have taken the most conservative stance of not endorsing either side of the controversy.

For the first time, we have exercised editorial privilege and have taken both the original entry and the comments down from this site. Comments are frozen on this entry. This action was taken based on complaints from a community member. In this, we follow standard policy of most web sites with open comments in dealing with complaints from the public.

We would encourage people to consider bringing their grievances to outlets better suited to vetting controversial issues. For those of you who have comments on our editorial stance, please email submit@chanpon.org. This has been a difficult decision for us, and we would appreciate hearing from our community.