Dr. Adrian Warnock entered blogging with big ambitions, and I think he worked hard to fulfil them. He started a blog aggregator for evangelicals at The Truth Laid Bear called The Blogdom of God, and made efforts to reach out to others. His aggregator scrapped blogs and when some of us protested, he cleaned it up.

A. Warnock is a UK psychiatrist with a drug company, (who former worked with a drug company) he leaves  his professional life off  of his blog for professional  choice; his obsession is theology. He has done interviews with leading Calvinists from the US, and runs into difficulty when others don’t participate in his hero worship.
He can be a gracious man, is a master at self-promotion, but has a habit of deleting or removing comments especially from women, often well after the fact. This caused dissent among faithful readers, so he implemented a comment policy and continued his passion with his heroes.

When dissent is seen as disunity, and choices to  moderate cuts off and alienates those who amiably disagree; perhaps closing up the two way conversation and sticking to his preaching is the best approach. Over pursuit of passion can do that to any one of us, we slide into hero worship and choke out personal and other’s growth. Policies that strangle dissent; perceiving it as attack and victimizing causes pain, and while Adrian’s theology demands and his personality craves control, I don’t believe he means or wants to hurt others. Dr. Warnock:

I am thinking seriously of nuking the whole concept of comments over at my place. I do hope you guys understand my dilemna.

…My big problem moving forward is that, with all my other responsibilities, I am so busy that something has to give. I have decided that the time I spend making the often agonizing decision about whether or not to publish a comment (and which I probably sometimes get wrong) is going to have to be freed up.

Again, his choice. I stopped commenting at Adrian’s blog a long time ago. Comments disappearing at whim is disconcerting and when they are posted elsewhere for clarity one realized the difficulty isn’t trolls, the difficulty is over-sensitivity and fear.   
When discussion toward leaders Adrian accepts uncritically is quashed, accountability is lost and it is best to close off the comments.
He has chosen his tribe and his heroes. 
Many bloggers don’t want or need dialogue; they don’t have time to moderate, they can be over-sensitive to the mediums back and forth, they are weary, hurt, or feel they are losing control. David:

Sadly I see a lot of people who are like Adrian. They have decided what they believe to be right and have  entirely closed their minds to anything new or different. They claim to read and study a great deal yet they never read any author who will challenge them, they never dare consider an opposing view and they ignore much of Christian history (and hence their “theology” frequently denies the Christian faith of those who have gone before). This makes for a fearful life of discipleship one that is always afraid of new ideas, new understanding, new insights, of difference.  

David Warnock has the details and analysis at 42.

I’m pleased David has chosen to continue to attempt cross blogging dialogues and critiques with Dr. Warnock, I’ve enjoyed his clear and loving challenges.  Adrian has met a mature intellectual, theological and spiritual equal and I hope David’s doggedness is a healing experience for Dr. Warnock, and one he will avail himself in participate openly  in David Warnocks open comment section.

“I am struck by the absence of resistance, dissent, and critical judgment in the moral repertoire of contemporary evangelicals. These disciplines - and let us call them disciplines - are rarely intoned in our sermons, publications, and seminaries, and when they are, they are most commonly regarded as manifestations of pride. Evangelicals are quick to admonish unity when there is a whiff of disagreement in the air. Dissent must be quashed for the sake of harmonious ideals, which we consider spiritual virtues. But perhaps the situation only masks our swift retreat from the costs of discipleship, fueled by an inferiority complex, which plagues us … We are failing to raise up a generation of Christian critics at a time when dissent should be a vital part of confessing Jesus Christ as Lord.” Charles Marsh Wayward Christian Soldiers, Oxford: Oxford UP, 2007, 191-92