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change is coming to our comments area
Published Jan 11, 2008Views: 618
Major change is on the way to the WRAL.com comments area.
The first change is that we are opening all of our news stories for comment beginning Wednesday, January 16.
From local and national news to strange news, political news and even local news briefs, every news story will be open for discussion.
We’ve received lots of feedback about stories being closed for comments, particularly when many others are open, and it has become increasingly clear that the community wants the opportunity to discuss it all. We want to provide that opportunity.
With a change of this magnitude, we have also made the decision to moderate all comments before they appear on the site, with the intent of weeding out the few who try to derail a conversation with off topic or abusive comments.
It is important to note that these changes will NOT apply to GOLO.
We will continue to rely on the GOLO community to bring questionable content to our attention.
GOLO members will have the ability to create their own profiles and blogs, post comments, upload and share image galleries and sound off on community issues 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We do, however, expect GOLO content to fall within our community guidelines and terms of use.
We recognize that full moderation is a tall task and for that reason we have hired a dedicated team of online community moderators.
Our moderators will work to provide consistency, objectivity and fairness while ensuring that comments promote productive community conversation and do not violate our terms of use.
We are also incorporating a voting tool that will let you decide the important stories of the day. In addition to voting on news stories, you will also be able to e-mail friends and encourage them to vote as well.
Story votes will be reset daily, in conjunction with comments, which will open at 7am and close at 7pm, Monday through Friday.
We believe this change will allow room for more opinions and encourage participation.
As always, we welcome your feedback about these changes and remain committed to providing a quality online experience.
-Angela
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I got zapped for typing the "A" in LM-O on a WRAL news story comment section.
Then I have noticed that several Golo members typed it out the way I did but on Golo and havent been zapped.
So, is there a difference in posting that letter??????????
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