Hatred and loathing hit newsagency blog

It is disappointing that a few commenters at this blog spew hatred instead of rational comment. The comments posted on Thursday evening by one person using seven different names served to make himself or herself look stupid and for readers to therefore disregard their view.

The purpose of my original post was to open a discussion about the future representation of newsagents on the national stage given the failure of the ANF. That it deteriorated into the childish drivel it did does not hold much hope for the channel.

With around 1,500 visitors to this place each day including prospective newsagents and suppliers, I’d urge newsagents to take care with comments – unless you want our channel to look like a bunch schoolyard thugs who hate each other.

As the Australian blogosphere, the issue of dealing with inappropriate behaviour is becoming more prominent. George Megalogenis has discussed it on his blog on the Australian and it was covered on the Media Report on Radio National a few weeks ago.

I favour a fairly tough ‘criticism welcomed but abuse is not on’ approach to moderation.