Murder Comments Fluster Moderator

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?