Comments on: Today’s Racist Post-Dispatch Comment http://blogsaintlouis.com/2009/04/27/todays-racist-post-dispatch-comment/ Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:46:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ArchPundit http://blogsaintlouis.com/2009/04/27/todays-racist-post-dispatch-comment/comment-page-1/#comment-1912 ArchPundit Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:32:57 +0000 http://blogsaintlouis.com/?p=183#comment-1912 What's great about this one--the post above and below were both moderated. Essentially if you use Mondays as a replacement for the n word-- you are aokay. What’s great about this one–the post above and below were both moderated. Essentially if you use Mondays as a replacement for the n word– you are aokay.

]]> By: PeteGray1945 http://blogsaintlouis.com/2009/04/27/todays-racist-post-dispatch-comment/comment-page-1/#comment-1911 PeteGray1945 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:25:01 +0000 http://blogsaintlouis.com/?p=183#comment-1911 It's clear that the decision to allow comments on news stories wasn't planned very well. Is thread moderation *anyone's* primary responsibility, or is it something done in the margins when folks have the time? Are there policies in place? Have these policies been communicated to users? If so, are they enforced with any consistency, or are posts killed when they meet some arbitrary threshold (if they happen to be noticed at all)? Are there any enforceable terms of service that will result in account termination when lines are crossed? Knowing how the Post/STLtoday operates, it wouldn't surprise me to learn that this was a directive handed down from on high, by someone who has little understanding of the web, in some panicked more to make the site more "sticky" and create "community" and thereby drive additional ad views. From the perspective of someone who doesn't live in the area any more but still reads the site, it's doing an incredible amount of harm in reinforcing existing perceptions of the area as racially intolerant.... It’s clear that the decision to allow comments on news stories wasn’t planned very well. Is thread moderation *anyone’s* primary responsibility, or is it something done in the margins when folks have the time? Are there policies in place? Have these policies been communicated to users? If so, are they enforced with any consistency, or are posts killed when they meet some arbitrary threshold (if they happen to be noticed at all)? Are there any enforceable terms of service that will result in account termination when lines are crossed?

Knowing how the Post/STLtoday operates, it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that this was a directive handed down from on high, by someone who has little understanding of the web, in some panicked more to make the site more “sticky” and create “community” and thereby drive additional ad views.

From the perspective of someone who doesn’t live in the area any more but still reads the site, it’s doing an incredible amount of harm in reinforcing existing perceptions of the area as racially intolerant….

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