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Murder Comments Fluster Moderator

Posted by DFO

May 11, 2009 8:46 a.m. • 19 comments

Update: Coeur d’Alene Press is now blocking access to the thread in question from the link below. (H/T: Dennis)

The Press moderator for the murder articles that ocurred over the weekend seems to have lost his patience. After making little effort to reign things in by 1) deleting all posts in the morning (not just the offending ones but the others as well because he didn’t have the time to “nitpick”); 2) he then ignored a racial slur at 7:41 am with his 8:29 am post and the slur still appears this morning; and 3) the Moderator left the following post last night: Moderator wrote on May 10, 2009 7:52 PM: ” Screw all of you .” You can follow the rest of the Moderator’s attempt to rein in the hate mongers re: the weekend murder story here.

Question: Did the Coeur d’Alene Press moderator do the right thing by killing the entire thread under the story re: the downtown Coeur d’Alene murder early Saturday morning?

19 comments on this post so far. Add yours!

redman on May 11 at 8:46 a.m.
Wow, glad its peaceful and civil here.
MamaJD on May 11 at 9:13 a.m.
The Moderator doesn’t seem to kill the entire thread. He seems to have done that in the morning. The rest of the day, a lot of merda continues within the presence of a “moderator” chiming in once and awhile throughout the day. It’s incredible that the Press will not change the procedures on the comments section.
OrangeTV on May 11 at 9:13 a.m.
Yes, in fact if I had my druthers they would cancel the entire comment system over there. The moderators have shown themselves to be incapable of doing a proper job over and over again, and many of the commentators obviously can’t control themselves and are just plain mean-spirited creeps. Just kill it, it’s nothing but an embarrassment to out town.
MamaJD on May 11 at 9:41 a.m.
Wow - the article no longer exists on the server. Pressure must have worked. Maybe HBOers should moderate for the Press. :)
Dennis on May 11 at 9:46 a.m.
MamaJD,,,, The thread is still active on the “Mess” site. The link from HBO has been blocked. Pretty petty on their part.
MamaJD on May 11 at 10:36 a.m.
For anyone that wants to cut and paste the link outside of HBO:

http://www.cdapress.com/articles/2009/05/10/breaking_news/00105091359.txt

It appears the racial slur post of 7:41am was deleted. Blocking HBO links is pretty petty. The other article also has more Press comment drivel:

http://www.cdapress.com/articles/2009/05/10/news/news02.txt

It is amazing that the Press will move swiftly to block DFO but tolerate ignorant, prejudiced stereotyping statements to remain on their boards.
spokelooneh on May 11 at 11:20 a.m.
Article says the perp is having a hearing at 1:00 pm.

Have the keyboard commandos on the Mess organized a lynch mob for this event yet?
Charlie on May 11 at 11:29 a.m.
Another form of “merda” is “ordure”. Milder form. The press is seems to be in deep do-do!
DFO on May 11 at 11:49 a.m.
>Another form of “merda” is “ordure”. Milder form. The press is seems to be in deep do-do! — Charlie<

OK, guys, you can use “merde” but you have to use the Portuguese spelling. I think it’s spelled the same in French. We pronounce it MARE-th.
Charlie on May 11 at 12:16 p.m.
DFO,
Sorry, I’m a lousy speller even with spellcheck.

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