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Quick Note: Commenting Policy Changed… For Now

Because of this mess on Friday, wherein we wound up having to police more hate speech in one single day on Philebrity than the entire nearly eight years of everything else combined, we’ve made a change to our commenting policy. Realizing that people are less likely to spout hate when it can actually track back to them, for now at least, only commenters with verified email addresses can comment on Philebrity. Folks who’ve been commenting for a while may remember that is what our old policy was like for years, but when we switched to the new Disqus commenting system a few months back, we decided to experiment with being more open. For the most part, it was working — until the fucking Americans showed up. Luckily, most of them have already left, and we’re back to paying our undivided attention to you, you beautiful Philadelphians.

We’ll have more on the Zoe Strauss story later this week, including Zoe’s plan to make lemonade out of all of those PhillyMag/Drudge lemons.

This entry was posted on Monday, June 25th, 2012 at 10:57 am.

  • http://twitter.com/DeborahHinchey Deborah Hinchey

    wow. looks like philly.com brought their homophobes to you guys on Friday. Be thankful the story wasn’t racially charged in any way or else they would be burning down your offices by now. Also, be real you know that Philadelphians don’t read Philly Mag. That’s for the lexus drivin’, white flight lovin’ housewives on the Main Line. 

  • RedEagles

    So your explanation of closing the posts is basically saying you are only going to allow posts you agree with and anything not aligned with our political ideologies that becomes popular will be shut-off or closed? That’s pretty weak. You people shouldn’t be so close minded to opinions, whether they are illogical, wrong, irrational, etc. Isn’t this type of action similar to the type of action you outwardly speak against? (no need to give specific examples)  Lame.

  • thegreengrass

    “Realizing that people are less likely to spout hate when it can actually track back to them, for now at least, only commenters with verified email addresses can comment on Philebrity.”

    That’s just about the least easy to misconstrue explanation there can possibly be. They didn’t say there was going to be a comment approval system. *That* would be very easy to assail as “only letting comments you agree with show up on the site”. You do realize this, right?

  • Jim Adair

    All you have to do to continue to comment is verify the email address.  Then, you can say whatever you like.  But, we don’t like to see the spewing of ethnic slurs, homophobia, and general hate speech around here.  That stuff is for Philly.com

  • Marian Reed

    yeah. wow, just scrolled through some of those comments. is this really what people do with their lives these days, visit blogs to act like 2 brain-cell-having nimrods? holy fuckoli. hell in handbasket, here we all come….

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IPDFBVGHUG5IKXPBM3K637AOBM bubba g

    So much for tolerance, right libtards?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IPDFBVGHUG5IKXPBM3K637AOBM bubba g

    Libtards love censorship. Tolerance? Not so much.

  • http://twitter.com/follmeyer Janet Follmeyer

    I think you should remove the comments entirely.  To give me the f-bomb for the comment that I posted is unfair and wrong . My commetn was why are you complaining about the writer for doing their job than for Zoe with her poor judgement?
     
    But I guess you can’t even remotely say anything against your advertisers/patrons, Zoe Strauss show or the Piazza?  I agree some of the other comments were bad, but what do you expect when you give most people the f-bomb to start?
     
    I removed myself from your email and I think it is shame you are such a tool because you are quite funny most of the time.  Bye Philebrity. RIP.

  • http://twitter.com/follmeyer Janet Follmeyer

    It was philly magazine not philly.com which didn’t report on this story

  • philebrity

    OK, see ya. But I do bristle at the charges. Here, for example, are some very not-nice things about the Piazza:

    Statistics Show: If Hell Is Other (White) People, Then, Yes, Northern Liberties Is Hell

    Meanwhile, what I always forget to mention is that we look at Philebrity, especially when it comes to comments, much like you would a neighborhood bar. We reserve the right, at any point in time, to stop serving whoever the hell we want. For any reason. Usually, we don’t have to do that, but it’s important to remember,

  • Sara Sherr

    Good move, Philebrity. Your comment pages are among the best (most intelligent/civil) I’ve seen on most blogs.  Let’s keep it that way.