I am happy to report that the folks at The Courant have apparently reconsidered their decision to allow anonymous comments on their story about the engagement of Dr. William Petit, sole survivor of the horrific rape and murder of his wife and daughters.

A reader reports that the comments on Alaine Griffin’s story about the engagement are gone.

I don’t know how the paper’s  managers arrived at their change of direction. In any event, given the awful nature of many of those comments — all posted anonymously — it was the right thing to do, even if belatedly. Allowing hurtful, mean and potentially damaging remarks by anonymous trolls is the height of irresponsibility on any newspaper’s part. . . and readers recognize that.

A technical note, however: The pages are still accessible for anyone who bookmarked the comments link. (I will not provide the link to prove my point, but suffice to say I just checked.) Somebody might want to fix that.