Yesterday, a number of posts were removed from the comment section of the City County Observer for the reason that they were unnecessarily personal and derogatory of nature. We included our policy on such things in an IS IT TRUE a few weeks ago but would like to remind our readers that personal attacks that have nothing to do with the substance of an article will be removed or partially removed.
For example, if a comment writer disagrees with a conclusion or an action taken it is perfectly acceptable to take issue with them in any way that one wants to without using profanity or getting personal. By getting personal what we mean is making reference to anatomical parts, using grade school name calling, or drawing family members into the discussion.
We thank and appreciate our comment writers and will further appreciate adhering to this request. You can fight with gloves off here but you can’t fight dirty.
Good policy.
Not only a good policy but a very fair policy………………….Good Job
This is definitely a good, responsible thing to do. People can cry “violation of freedom of speech,” but it is simply not applicable in this case.
There are posters here with whom I disagree. But civil discourse always trumps hateful, lazy invectives. Too bad so many people walk the fine line with their posts. Then, it is sometimes hard to resist in-kind responses to ad-hominum attacks.
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