For over 6 months, I've been participating on the forums of The News Tribune, to compare it to The Olympian - both owned by the same company. My findings:
1. Conservative majority - the majority of comments come from hardcore conservatives, the ones that float as much hyperbole as possible.
2. Moderation - comments that are unsavory just disappear in the TNT, whereas the "O" has a need to make a formal announcement, which seems to inflame the issue.
3. Violation of privacy - it happens in both, stirred up by Conservatives who seem to have a real obsession with "who is who", but most blatant and the one that ties LTEs to forum participants is the same one that does so in The Olympian - our blogger of many monikers. Just to consider that the person in question followed me (predictably) to the TNT to continue the fray says mountains.
Observation - TNT moderators are no nonsense. They don't make a public spectacle out of moderation, but just go about their job silently. They don't take kindly to people that are there to cause trouble.
I decided to share this today in light of 98507's work to install "rating buttons". Immediately, a reader (anyone can rate, you don't have to subscribe) started to abuse the feature.
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Thank you, Larry and 98507, for the rating buttons. I'm sorry to hear that they've been abused already. Sorry, that is, but not surprised.
Gotta go now -- I've gotta find that cat picture so I can click 'like'! But only once ...
I had the exact same thought, spinnaker.
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