The Winston-Salem Journal opened up comments on a story about a local Muslim group that is trying to get some land it owns re-zoned for use as a cemetery. To be honest I expected the comments to be at least a little rough, and perhaps a tad xenophobic. What I found were several posts, all politely written, that mostly agreed with the idea that the Muslims should be allowed to build their cemetery as long as it meets all local regulations.
Since the paper reviews the comments I’m not sure if they pulled down any nasty comments or not, but either way it is nice to see people behaving politely online. If the Journal did pull down or prevent the publication of some nasty letters then maybe the Journal’s policy of review is something the Greensboro News & Record should look at given the problems they are having with "trolls."
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Hi John,
Hey, just to let ya’ know, we didn’t have to pull any comments on that story, and to my knowledge (I’m one of three people who approve ’em) haven’t pulled any comments so far … of course, we’ve got a big challenge on the polite frontier today: three stories with comments open, one on slavery reparations, one on monuments / confederate flag, and one on local annexation…
http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ/MGArticle/WSJ_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031783700208
Hi Joe,
Glad to hear you haven’t had to pull any comments down…it somewhat restores my faith in online humanity. Maybe it also says a little about the difference between folks in Winston-Salem and Greensboro:)
Sounds like you’ll be busy for a day or two; good luck!