Commenting functionality gives visitors more control

We silently launched additional functionality on Thursday afternoon that some of our regular visitors noticed almost immediately.

It has to do with our commenting functionality.

Comments on our articles have been very successful for us for a few years now.

We get thousands of comments every day. Most are great. A few aren’t so great. But we don’t want the few to spoil it for the many.

From what I hear from others in the industry, NewsOK.com has been pretty liberal in our allowances on comments on our articles. We want the discussions to be as open as possible. But we are also a mature, grown-up site, so we have to have some laws.

Our Web editors look at every objection made by the masses. They look at them and weigh the issues. If the comment is making an unfair personal attack, uses foul language or is completely off topic, we likely will decide to take the comment off the site. And perhaps just as important as the rules above or in our policy, we ask our editors to use good old-fashioned common sense.

We also make it clear that on some articles, we don’t intend to allow comments. That includes articles on criminal issues or those of a sensitive nature.