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Comments Removed from Maui News Website
The Molokai Times should do the same.
Molokai Dispatch Editorial
The Maui News reports that they will no longer allow comments to be posted on its Web site “due to flagrant abuse of the privilege - including continual name-calling, crude language, profanity, slander, threats and racism.”
The comment section obviously became too offensive to the company’s editors as well as their readership.
But if you thought that the Maui News comments were bad, they pale in comparison to those found in the Molokai Times website – if you choose to go there, beware, it’s ugly.
The painful words thrown around the Molokai Times’ comment section are many times more hurtful to our small community than they would be in a larger population. Community members are named and picked apart. Others join in the fight until an entire webpage is filled with “name-calling, crude language, profanity, slander, threats and racism.”
For some, the anonymous nature of commenting on the web removes the sense of personal responsibility – kindness, respect, patience and thoughtfulness are set aside as users vent their frustrations on others.
And how does this make our community look to off-islanders and mainlanders? Like a bucket of crabs stuck on a backwards little island. Auwe!
In the absence of anonymous online commenting, the Maui News is encouraging readers to submit hand-written letters and emails as a more civil way to voice opinions.
The Molokai Times has shut its doors leaving behind a legacy of community service through media - remove the anonymous comments from the website so we’re not left with the ugliness too.
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Maui & Molokai Travel Guide. Richard Sullivan Comments!
I have visited "Maui" for a minimum of 2 weeks a year for the past 4 years. I came across a travel guide written by Richard Sullivan and friends 3 years ago. It's in my opinion a great friend to Molokai, it's simple with great photo's and well written information. After visiting his "web site" he sent out an alert in an article that Molokai's Aloha spirit was dropping after he and some friends waited over a half an hour for service in an "empty" famous island pastry shop on the island. He then said that people will have to reconsider coming to the island if there not welcomed there. Wow! this is from the guy who writes a travel guide! Heads up! People who spend thousands of dollars on travel trips do there research these days and will gladly find other places to spend there hard earned money if they don't feel welcomed! KP2 should become the ambassador of Molokai!
This is a joke
The reason molokaitmes.com got so ugly is because Molokai has become ugly. I've visited the island for years. Your island is nothing without Aloha and I no longer visit Molokai because I'm white and clearly not welcome on the island. Regarding the comments it's pretty clear the molokai dispatch just wanted to see molokaitimes.com go away and it looks like they got their wish. Good job Dispatch. So Mr. Editor in Chief, how is my username "whitedude" any less anonymous than the molokai times comment system?
No Joke
Dear whitedude, you are right. Your username and identity are just as anonymous here as they are at the Times and Maui News comment systems - but that's not the point. The problem is the abuse. When the comment section is used as a place to beef and spew hate, then it's just not working.
What do small communities like Molokai need? Like you said yourself, more aloha. We need positive thinking, ideas, and solutions. As owner and editor of the Molokai Dispatch, it is my focus to cultivate this kind of discussion for our community.
Mahalo for your comment,
Todd Yamashita - Editor in Chief
Comment Removal
If the Maui News comment section wasn't being overloaded by abuse, they would have kept service alive.
So far we haven't experienced really bad abuse on our site, so we'll be keeping things the way they are.
Todd Yamashita - Editor in Chief
the Times is kept the way it was?
how come i cannot sign in then? is this the same for anybody?
properly registered forum posters will be more responsible.
i asked myself the question why things got ugly over in the other paper, and i can only summize that even though we retain anonymity, we can only post under the regitered forum name here while in the "times" nobody had to put a forum name to their posts. this was confusing to say the least. i signed myself as "harmony" over there so that others recognize me as having a certain motive in my dialog. i often wish that there would be some lively input of opinions and suggestions here as well.
on the maui news i contributed frequently, but i am glad that the forums are gone. i am not only dissapointed that such nastiness exists among us in paradise, but i am also embarrassed that the whole world can read this stuff, much of that jibberish was posted by poorly raised teenagers. if, in the name of the 1. amendment, we abuse this free speech by making others feel awful, then we need someone to put a stop to these voices from hell.
Molokai Dispatch comment section
Will the Molokai Dispatch follow Maui News and remove their comment section as well?
Thanks.