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3 comments
Joe Espo February 10, 2013 at 5:14 pm
We appreciate bringing trying to bring sense and sensibility to your blog but please don’t smother it with the PC face pillow. Offensive, inappropriate or annoying comments? According to who’s standards? Sock puppets? You know, don’t you, that all the socks we collectively lose in our basement dryers are dancing around here! All of this is what makes your blog an interesting read and a go-to in the morning after Drudge. We used to have a real, vitally important AND POTENT forum with yourct.com but it died a politically correct death. The post from scopeon didn’t merit redaction; it merited ridicule that could have been demonstrably meted out to your blog’s benefit.
Nancy Chapman February 10, 2013 at 6:41 pm
We thought ScopeOn’s post contained unsubstantiated accusations, which we cannot publish. It wasn’t a matter of being politically correct, it was a matter of being legal.
I appreciate your comparison to YourCT as I realize it provided a valuable social service. I am hoping to emulate that function but the level of disrespect that has been shown in some posts needs to be cut back.
I have also talked to some people who loved YourCT but who are discouraged from commenting by the vitriol and/or superficiality of some of the posts here (and there, I am told, toward the end of its robust activity). They are interested in discussing issues, not a silly back and forth.
LWitherspoon February 11, 2013 at 10:24 am
Good guidelines Nancy, especially regarding sock puppets. The Voice seems to have more sock puppets than actual commenters these days.