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I agree with Casey. There certainly is a need to manage this content better, in order to resolve the sometimes conflicting needs of blogger and commenters.

Whenever I post a comment on a blog or an online forum I try to remember to keep a copy of the text and the URL of the comment. I have a personal wiki which is great for storing this stuff. But it’s tedious to enter this information each time, and I don’t always bother.

[Perhaps there is an opportunity for a Firefox extension to automatically store (locally or on the web) the content and location of all form content that you post, meeting some criteria (eg non-secure, greater than 4 words, etc)?]

Also, IIRC it was intended that trackbacks solve (at least partially) this problem. They don’t, of course.