I really like the Sacramento Press.  It gives an open forum to the public which otherwise would be unlikely to find an audience.  It's free and anyone can say just about anything, and that's good.  I wouldn't ask to have the rules changed. But as to continuing to participate, my reasons for dropping out are simply that, in my mind, a person writes a bit of news or an opinion and the public is welcome to comment on it.  That's good too. I do however take umbrage at readers who, instead of discussing the comments, rebutting them or agreeing with them, instead turn their attention from the comments to the writer with an aggressive, personal, untruthful, mistaken and just plain rude comments

Several residents recently used the city website’s new “eComment” tool to weigh in on the issue of green waste pickup. The City Council is expected to consider in January whether to ask voters to use bins for green waste. Sacramento voters decided in 1977 that the city could not establish the use of bins for green waste. If the city wants to enact bin use rules, it must ask voters to overturn the 1977 law, according to a Nov. 24 report from the Utilities Department. More bin opponents are using the eComment tool than proponents. Only one of six recent comments is from a bin supporter. Here are three eComments on the green waste issue. Bakken and Goldberg's comments have been shortened fo