Leaving aside the discussion of whether Guests should post & whether moderators should be anonymous, I'm curious how folks think an individual should react {perhaps "respond" is a better word} to an online comment that she or he considers to be uncivil.

I suppose that the best response depends on the situation.

Let's say that the person read a comment that she or he considered uncivil or even down right offensive, what does he or she do?

I can think of these possible responses:

A person could ignore the comment

or

A person could inform a moderator about the comment and ask for it to be deleted

or

A person could ask for clarification, to make sure that she or he understood what the person wrote

or

A person could make a snarky response

or

A person could retaliate with an offensive comment [in other words "go yo mama on his or her ass" by cussing or otherwise]

or

The person could post a comment that indicates that she or he takes exception to that comment

or what???

And what should other people do who read such comments?

Should other people do anything at all-since the comment was directed to someone else and not them.

What do you think??