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On the article Fire Breaks Out in Dundalk Home Under Construction
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On the article Fire Breaks Out in Dundalk Home Under Construction
Marge Neal
5:40 am on Saturday, May 18, 2013
ReplyFolks, refrain from calling people names, or using playground derivations of people's names; the comments will be removed. — Marge
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On the article Fire Breaks Out in Dundalk Home Under Construction
Marge Neal
2:38 pm on Friday, May 17, 2013
Kay,
New people are not unwelcome and I'm sorry your first experience here has not been good. We try to monitor conversations as best as possible, and I hope you stick around. — Marge -
On the article Fire Breaks Out in Dundalk Home Under Construction
Marge Neal
2:27 pm on Friday, May 17, 2013
ReplyFolks, I agree with many posters here ... a reader is entitled to his or her opinion, and those whose opinions differ should still respect the views of others and not argue. Say your piece without telling the other person they are wrong. Thanks! — Marge
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On the article Fire Breaks Out in Dundalk Home Under Construction
Marge Neal
5:29 am on Friday, May 17, 2013
Several comments have been removed because they violate Patch's terms of use agreement. Make your point or leave your opinion without name-calling and personal attacks. And name-calling includes playground bullying versions of other readers' names. — Marge
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On the article Expert: No Cicadas this Year in Howard County
Marge Neal
10:24 am on Monday, May 13, 2013
ReplyThere was a comment here earlier this morning mentioning the cicada news three weeks ago was very different from this, but it seems to be gone!
I tried to set the story straight more than a month ago with this tongue-in-cheek piece: http://dundalk.patch.com/articles/stop-the-cicada-madness-already
Brood II is not expected to make much of an appearance (if any) in the metropolitan Baltimore area; they will be predominately in southern Maryland. — Marge
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On the article Dundalk Art Show, Dunfest Set for Saturday
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On the article Man Found Dead in Car is Identified; Was From Essex
Marge Neal
8:44 am on Tuesday, May 7, 2013
ReplyTim,
I am the editor of Dundalk Patch but we all have bosses. This article did get edited by an editor above me. We're just as human as anyone else; I don't know anyone who's perfect at their jobs, and I certainly don't claim to be. I'm not hiding behind anything. I claim my mistakes and fix them, and acknowledge them. It just amazes me what readers want to complain about. These comments rarely have anything to do with the content of articles, and rarely add anything but snippy and mean comments designed to aggravate. And I just find that's getting quite old. That's all. Not hiding behind anything; just trying to have a little respect for the topic, and that apparently isn't working, so I'm done here.
And in regard to spell check, if an incorrectly used word is spelled correctly, spell check won't catch it. Spell check should have caught the one typo, and I'm not sure why it didn't. -
On the article Man Found Dead in Car is Identified; Was From Essex
Marge Neal
7:44 am on Tuesday, May 7, 2013
ReplyBecause of the sensitivity of the issue of suicide, we don't normally report on them unless the person involved is a public figure, or unless the suicide took place in a very public manner, which was the case here.
From this point on, from a journalistic point of view, this is now a private matter for this man's family to deal with. The general public knows all it needs to know about this. They know what happened in an incident that involved a lot of visible police activity, and they know there's no danger to themselves or others. That's all you need to know. It is no reporter's job to dig in to the pain and angst of a man or woman driven to suicide, and it's really no one's business, other than his family's, who may still never know. It is a private matter at this point.
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On the article Man Found Dead in Car is Identified; Was From Essex
Marge Neal
7:18 am on Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Trust me, I have. A man dies, and all anyone can talk about are typos. I think it's sad. — Marge
Marge Neal
12:28 pm on Saturday, May 18, 2013
1ke, I'm not sheltering anyone; I've removed Mr. Beeler's comments before when necessary. And I don't see how I can be accused of sheltering him by standing up for another commenter. Mr. Beeler's comments were among those I had in mind when I said that all readers' opinions need to be respected. Opinions are just that, and aren't necessarily right or wrong, but rather the convictions of an individual. Believing yours to be right doesn't give you the right to tell another they're wrong, and that's what I said. That goes for Mr. Beeler as well as anyone else. What loses credibility is when anyone has to call names, personally attack others, use cuss words or other abusive terms and bully others to get their point across. It also strips this website of its credibility, and I put in way too much time and energy to maintain it to have a few people constantly tear it down. While you all publicly beat each other up, I receive hundreds of emails complaining about the tone and lack of civility in the comments section. I've lost readers because of it, and I'm sick of it. If you are confident in your opinion/findings/research, state it in a civilized manner without calling people names, without beating each other up, without trashing the opinions of others and telling them they're wrong. It's that simple.