What do you think of the Guardian's American commentary?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/16/talking-shop-guardian-america

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It's been about a year since the Guardian acquired a different, geographically-served US edition for anyone living in North America. Since then, we have signed up a number of regular columnists and increased the amount of US content we publish, including here on Comment is free. We thought this might be a good moment to ask Comment is free users on both sides of the Atlantic how you think it's working out, what you like and what you don't like, and what you think we should do next.

One issue that comes up now and again in threads is the use of US spellings, at variance with the house style applied across the rest of the site. Here's our logic, which may help explain our approach to publishing US content more generally …

If you are a UK-based user visiting the Comment is free homepage you see everything we publish, including all our US-sourced content. At times, you might feel, this may make the homepage too busy and too weighted towards US-interest stories. Equally, you might find the relative weight of our US coverage interesting and useful: we're a global site, after all.

If you are a US user, however, we do some filtering on subject keywords, so that you don't automatically see everything published by the UK mothership. We judge that if you are a Guardian reader in Gary, Indiana, you will want a snapshot of UK politics, the Guardian editorials and our leading columnists, but you won't necessarily want every article on UK domestic policy. And if we're wrong, you can always switch the edition you're looking at with the toggle-switch at the top of the page.

It's not just about the subject of the articles being of niche UK or US interest; it's also about the way we edit and present the stories. Should we stop referring to "the cold snap" in headlines, say, and always specify which country's weather we're talking about? Does it annoy you when you get the impression an article assumes you're British, or American? Does all this depend on whether the story has been showcased on the front of the edition of Comment is free you're reading?

About 30% of Comment is free's users are US-based. Our US users may find us in different ways from most UK users; a smaller proportion, certainly, bookmark the Comment is free homepage. But our US readership is large and growing, and we're trying to serve it better – without alienating UK and rest-of-the-world users.

The US spellings issue fits into this larger architecture. After the expansion of the Guardian's US bureau, we (in the US) took a view that we would continue to edit for house style, but that it made little sense to change every "color" to "colour", for instance, or to insist that the US Department of Defense would be a defence department if only it knew better. So you will routinely find articles written by Americans, from America, with American spellings.

We hope that this is not too controversial, and we would welcome your thoughts both on this and the larger questions about the mix and balance of US content on Comment is free, and whether our intuitive sense of how you use the site(s) actually reflects reality and your preferences. Please tell us.