1.  I support the comments of Ted, Choon, and Patricia.  In particular, you might accommodate Choon (and me) my making it possible to mark a box that would automatically post a comment to Facebook even though the commenter did not log into Civil Beat through Facebook. 

2.  There seems to be a strict limit on how many characters are allowed in a comment, which has sometimes forced me to severely mutilate my comment on your Procrustean bed.  And then I sometimes see other comments on the same article that are more lengthy than what I was allowed.  That's unfair.  In fact, to illustrate my point, I'm forced to break up my 4 comments into three separate postings, as you will see with #3 and #4 below.  The combination of #3 and #4 is apparently too lengthy for your short attention span, so I must post them separately.