Reactiemogelijkheid op nieuwssites een utopie?

Marco Derksen - zondag 22 mei 2005, 22.00 uur

Ventura County Star, een van de inmiddels vele voorbeelden van civiele journalistiek, heeft de optie om reacties te plaatsen bij nieuwsartikelen uitgeschakeld:

Since the comments section was started in January, we have seen wonderful discussions by our readers on issues and stories about our community. We thank all of you who were willing to take the time to join this conversation.


However, since the beginning, there have also been those who abused the system. Their comments were full of profanity. They personally attacked individuals, both persons related to news stories and others who were commenting on the website. They posted pornographic comments. They turned the comments into a personal chat room.


We have been able through monitoring to control most of those abuses. However, the abuses have grown in the past few weeks to the point that we feel we must shut down the system.


We are currently examining options and hope to reinstate comments if we can find a reasonable way to encourage civil discourse.

Jammer, absoluut een tegenslag voor de civiele journalistiek.

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