Have you ever considered publicly defending your policy, describing your policy in detail, sharing with your own community the transparent details of how your censorship operates?

Well let’s see. Our policy is: we allow completely open, anonymous comments without requiring the creation of an account or even the provision of a temporary email address – one can simply type anything they want in the box, hit submit and (barring a few spam filters that try to keep the deluge of spam out of our comments, and can occasionally misfire) it will show up on the site.

Perhaps we do need to offer a defense of this policy. After all, it is extremely rare, practically unheard of on the modern web – in comparison to most blogs, and all social media, our comment section is one of the most open and least moderated on the web. It’s true that some people think this is crazy of us, and that we should be doing more to block/ban people like you, since to most of our commenters you don’t add anything of value and in fact detract from the quality of discussion by poisoning it with bad-faith questions (which appears to be your goal).

To those people I would defend our policy thusly: we get so much great content from completely anonymous commenters (they won both first place spots in this week’s comments post, which will be appearing shortly!) that we’re willing to put up with the people who abuse the system for the purpose of trolling and disruption. We love the anonymous portion of our audience and are committed to accommodating them, and we have plenty of readers who have very good reasons for wanting to remain anonymous when they engage here. We value them more than we value the idea of blocking off some trolls.

Beyond that, we don’t have much in the way of a "policy". We do have a very basic voting/reporting system that can result in some comments receiving small badges of recognition, while others have a single click placed in between them and the reader. That can’t be what you’re referring to though, since only a paranoid weirdo or a disingenuous troll would complain about that as "censorship".