That is the word it takes to get the Post-Dispatch to take moderating comments?
Of all of the shit I have found on that site, Greenbaum calls the workplace of a guy who posted a dumb joke to what is the strangest thing you have ever eaten. Seriously? WTF?
You can post racist screeds time and time again. You can post misogynistic garbage on the site and they may delete it. May. You can post bizarre anti-Semitic screeds that deny the Holocaust. Nothing.
You post an inappropriate response that isn’t that funny, but hardly the most offensive thing the site sees on a daily basis and Greenbaum calls the school notifying them?
Disgusting human beings are coddled and allowed to post over and over again, but a dork with a bad sense of humor gets the call.
In theory, I don’t have a problem with reporting people to their ISP for abuse of site terms. It shouldn’t be the first response, but it’s an entirely reasonable response for serious violations (threats) or repeated violations (more than twice in the same thread certainly). I actually think the P-D ought to do this, but the choice of who to go after is absolutely bizarre.