Here at AL.com, we believe that our voices aren't the only ones that should be heard.

Like many digital media companies -- including The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Guardian -- we provide an anonymous comment space with an aim to encourage free and open dialogue. Often that works. We often see humor and challenging ideas and facts offered to our reporters that add context and value. But we know the commenting experience isn't always civil, and that it can be better. We hope you'll help us as we work toward that goal.

We hope you will please consider completing a survey about your experience on AL.com run by researchers at the Engaging News Project from the University of Texas in Austin. That team is working with The Coral Project, a collaboration between The Washington Post, the New York Times and the Mozilla Foundation, among others. It is funded by a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The Coral Project aims to help publishers create and enliven communities around their journalism. That's a goal AL.com shares and why we're collaborating with these national publishers in our quest to make commenting better and more civil.

To complete the survey, click here.

We know the commenting experience isn't always civil, and that it can be better. We hope you'll help us as we work toward that goal.

The results will help us improve commenting and online discussion. Survey data from AL.com viewers will be combined with responses from those from other news organizations across the country to get a broader sense of commenting nationwide. We will share some of the overall findings here at AL.com.

Want to give us direct feedback? We'll be participating in the comments section below. And you can email your thoughts to us at forums@al.com.