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Proposal re: ATL comments section
Thursday, January 22, 2009 12:05 AM - By guest

Hello ATL Community,

I have become extremely frustrated by the comments lately and would like to propose an idea to remedy the situation.

Because of the vile, vulgur and racist comments frequently appearing on the site, it is becoming almost embarassing to admit that one even reads ATL at work.

ATL is a legal news/gossip blog. There is simply no reason to allow disgusting and racist comments about the editors that have absolute NOTHING to do with the law, nevermind the article in question.

My proposal- and I'm sure this would be easy to set up- is a community-moderated comment section. Set out some very basic ground rules and then put a little rad flag above every single comment. If enough members of the ATL community click on the red flag (because, e.g., the comment is racist or otherwise insulting and unrelated to the article) then the comment is automatically removed.

I think this would substantially elevate the quality of ATL and bring the site back to the days when there was no stigma attached to reading.

Just my two cents.

-NYC Associate

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