A lot of people will hate the changes made to the reader comment feature of The Birmingham News, but I say it's about time. Joey Kennedy announced them on Friday, but today is the first chance I've had to discuss it.
How many more crass comments after a suicide story, or examples of flat-out racist ignorance do you have to read before you say enough is enough? If those fools want to hide behind a fake name and rant, let them start their own blogs! The new procedures will allow readers to block comments from certain cretins, like most social media sites. If someone want to live in the gutter..fine, just don't let them pull me down with them.
Good call Joey and Co.
Hooray for JK & TBM!
ReplyDeleteHowever, this problem still won't go away until a subscriber-based system is created with each subscriber being given a unique identifier.
Of course, the subscription should be paid, and would be with the one to the newspaper.
Barring that, an IP block would suffice to block "trolls."
Now if only the Montgomery Advertiser would follow suit.
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