Good idea
Not sure if anyone will take them up on it, but this is a good idea:
Each candidate will be provided with a blog on KnoxNews.com. On it, you can post whatever information you want about yourself or your campaign. Visitors to the Web site will be able to post comments or questions on your blog (you have the ability to delete any comments you want). We will be promoting these blogs online and in print.
I don’t like the deleting comments bit (profanity and questionable content excluded, of course) as it indicates a fear of dissent.
February 24th, 2006 at 11:12 am
Yeah, true about the deleting, but if that’s the price of having the candidates actually use it from time to time, it’s worth it. And, they have to actually use it to delete the comments (as opposed to comment moderation).
February 24th, 2006 at 3:49 pm
I think comment deletion is okay but that the comment should not just disappear: it should be replaced with something like “This comment deleted by .” Addition of a reason for the deletion being optional.