Comments on: Marquette's Mining Journal Revokes Online Comment Feature

By: Douglas Scott Treado

Douglas Scott Treado — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:31:15 +0000

You can however still comment on newstories on Marquette County's TV station's website:
http://www.WLUC-TV6.com
I would suggest that we continue to do so.
(They have recently put together a collection of all the articles and readers' commentaries which can be searched and read–this includes articles from about one-year ago.)

By: David Richarde

David Richarde — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 03:30:25 +0000

One has to ask-were the "small" minority of writers actually those against the mine and vis a vis, against the Mining Journal's editorial bent?

By: Alexis

Alexis — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:51:28 +0000

The Mining Journal should be commended for attempting to host a non-mediated forum for the public to discuss stories covered by the newspaper. It is unfortunate that the public discussion deteriorated into name-calling, bullying and the like. Perhaps, this was a consequence of not requiring user's real names. Anonymity has its benefits, but it also allows internet user's to behave in a manner they would be ashamed of if their identity was known. This website encourages discussion of topics covered in the website, but the organization has opted to moderate the comments to weed out inappropriate conduct. It is a fine line to between freedom of speech and providing a platform for disgusting behavior and hate-mongering. I hope that citizens will continue to engage each other on controversial issues, but in person. It develops community, thoughtful and polite debate and maybe even friendship.