Reading through the contributions of visitors to open-access sites, notably Leonenet and Sierra Leone Government web, we have been appalled by the nature of the personal attacks on each other and the filth and vitriol of language used.

This site intends to focus on the critical issues that affect the country, and not be a platform for issuing rancour and spite, displaying Sierra Leoneans intolerance towards one another to the rest of the world. Our aim is to complement not compete with other web sites covering our country's affairs. We believe in and encourage criticism, debate and airing alternative opinions; we expect people to disagree strongly with each other. But that does not give a licence to descend into bigotry, tribalism and intolerance on the scale evident in some of the contributions posted to other sites.

In due course we will open our guest book for comments. In the meantime, if you wish to make a serious and constructive point or suggestion, including criticism of the editorial stance of this paper, do so by all means using our . We will do our best to respond to you and represent your views fairly and honestly. But we do not want  to uglify your screens with uncharitable personal comments about one another, and this site will not be used as a vehicle for pursuing personalised vendettas, point scoring and bigotry.

Sierra Leone is just a small nation and we who are its citizens should be working together to create harmony not dissension and disunity in our midst. We have a powerful medium - the Internet - through which we can do so painlessly and beneficially. We should not abuse or misuse it.

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