Maui News stops the madness: no more reader comments online

http://mauinews.com/page/content.detail/id/508831.html

With any luck, this starts a trend.

 

You mean, like starting with this place?

 

Good choice.

Lotsa good people over there.

 

I heart the Maui News. Brad Sherman's still there, right?

 

Good for them.

 

Won't be on the same page as many here. Interactivity is better than non-interactivity. This is a step backward in this day and age, I think.

 

I am with SF_Express.
Figure out a way to make it work, but just turning the clocks back to 1995 ain't going to work.

 

If you're not going to do it right, don't do it at all. And most places don't have the resources (i.e. people to read submitted comments and act as a filter) to do it right.

 

What about some sort of filter or macro that doesn't let people post certain words? Sort of like the pussycat one here.

 

That's what the "letters to the editor" section is for. And they're signed. The dream of interactivity is no excuse for some of the freeform crap that shows up in frequently-anonymous reader comments.