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The comment section on MetsBlog.com is made available so you can provide your own insightful, relevant commentary to a post made to the site’s main page.
I highly encourage you to challenge me, the team and to engage in an intelligent, thoughtful discussion about the initial post.
However, if you attack a fellow reader in any way, such as calling people names like ‘idiot’ and ‘jerk,’ your comment will be removed. If you make a random, unrelated comment for the sake of writing to this blog, your comment will be removed.
Swearing, racial slurs, violent remarks, hateful comments and irrelevant babble are not welcome on this site and will be removed.
If a reader repeatedly violates these rules he or she will have their posting privileges revoked.
According to a recent survey, the overwhelming majority of this site’s readers prefer to see comments that provide additional insight about the subject at hand.
Additionally, comments that appear on MetsBlog get linked to its search-engine results, and can trigger other company firewalls – thus jeopardizing our readership, the future of this site and what has essentially become my career.
In turn, I am working to create a wide-open message board that can be utilized for all sorts of discussion, with very little restrictions.
Believe me, I realize that you have a right to express your thoughts in public – and I support that. However, the comments section on any blog is a privilege, not a right – there is a significant difference between the two.
Therefore, please contact me if you notice a reader who is violating these guidelines (which you can always find in the left-hand column of this site).
Hopefully in time, with tighter rules, and your help, the comment section can return to a safer, more intelligent, well-mannered environment.
Thanks for understanding, and I appreciate your support…
Matthew Cerrone
MetsBlog.com
Glad to hear you’re getting the message board up and running, Matt. One imagines that will help a lot, and should be a nice compliment to the site.
Hopefully the message board will reduce the amount of comments on the main site. I used to read the comments regularly, but when a post has 100+ comments, I tend to not even glance at them. It turns out being the same old arguments over and over again.
word to that .. the Johan conversation got to be unbearably repetitive with the same points being fleshed out by new waves of people day after day, it’s gotten to where you can get a whole thread by scanning the first 20 posts or so…I think a lot of tit for tat back and forth would end up on the message board, hopefully raising the quality of the comments section.
Matt I think you and your website are great. Kepp up the good work and thank you for running such a wonderful website.
- Mike
Well put. I’am one who prefers insight over insults.
Nicely put, broheim.
With success always comes strife.
Thanks Matt, for the site and your hard work. You created it, you control it.
Also, thanks for pointing out the limits of the 1st amendment for all those who still don’t grasp it.
Just so you are aware, the 1st Amendment only applies to Government restrictions on free speech.
With that said, Matt can regulate anyone on this site for anything and be well within his right.
The ability this blog gives to allow direct replies to other’s comments is part of what makes this a greater place to share throught and ideas. The linear replies on other sites kills the conversation aspect, so I would hate to see that concept leave Metsblog.
I agree, don’t let the problems of a select few ruin what has become part of my everyday life.
I also agree here .. I do love the conversations on this site, and the threaded replies are a huge part of that…that said, I think a lot of the conversation we’ve been witnessing lately has been more message board style back and forth than content rich comments .. it’s certainly a fine line, and I’m always one for some snark, but I think having a more chat oriented message board will help the quantity versus quality ratio quite a bit.
I agree. I enjoy having the discussions meander if different directions, as long as they don’t devolve into “favorite Seinfeld episode” or name-calling.
I noticed that the comments were cut off below in a discussion of a Twins’ fan’s take on the Santana trade, presumably because we had gotten off on a “tangent” on the Mets’ payroll. No. 1, I think the mini-discussion was over, and others may have wanted to post on the Twins’ reaction, specifically, and No. 2, if you can’t see how salary comparisons and the Mets’ place in the salary hierarchy are relevant to a Twins’ fan’s perspective on the Santana deal, I can’t help you. Is it a direct response to the post? No. But it’s relevant, and will lead to further discussion on Twins’ perspectives, I would think. My own view, for what it’s worth (however many hits I generate when I should be working, and not much more,) is that the site will be more enjoyable by moving the comments a couple steps beyond “Great job, Matt! This blog is the best!!!!!”
As long as its semi-related, or at least in regards to the Mets or even baseball who cares? I mean really. If you have something you want to say are you suppsoed to wait until there happens to be a thread on that subject? It seems like a lot of times the conversations just boil over to the next thread when one is added. Is that really a big deal? If every post HAS to be related to the applicable thread and its a busy day with many posts no one will ever see what you wrote by the time you get it in…
I sort of worry that a popular message board could bring down traffic to your main site. Especially if you are policing the main site, people might just head straight to the message boards where its likely people will post what you’ve written on the main site for discussion. Just something that came to mind.
i made a similar comment, but it got censored.
I’d hate to see the good back-and-forth leave the site. The craziness of recent days, I think, is simply due to an influx of trolls and immature newbie/bandwagoners after the Santana trade.
As m00kie said above, it is a fine line. It’s like “I can’t tell you what pornography is, but I know it when I see it.”
It’s your site. Do with it what you will.
During “Santana week” I became very familiar with the fine work of Aaron Gleeman, and may I suggest you borrow his approach to comments, which I believe is:
“Don’t write anything here you wouldn’t say to anyone’s face. Comments will be deleted on a whim.”
This sounds great Matt. I primarily come to this site for information and to see the intelligent comments on the subject at hand. That you will keep as well as giving us the opportunity to make our own observations. The rest tends to be annoying chatter anyway.
The message board sounds great also and will give all participating the opportunity for humor, gross or otherwise and general conversations among like interested readers.
You keep moving and improving Matt and I wish you well in its continuance.
Krusty The Klown certainly violates all of the rules with his vile remarks LOL but he is funny and sick too
krusti the clown certainly violates those rules lol he is a sick and funyn at the same time
Great Job Matt! Thanks for the site!
Any way we can throw out suggestions for the victory song next year?
Really want to stomp my feet to “Back in the New York Groove”
Any other ideas?