Musings on Examiner comments on my column:
For the past few months, readers have been encouraged to comment on Examiner stories and columns. On the whole, I find the comments on my Monday Education column positive and intelligent. There is also an "agree/disagree" option for readers of the comments.
However, sometimes either the comments or the "agree/disagree" clicks are mystifying. On the very first comment I received, for instance, a reader commented on my column on the Virginia Tech shootings that my column inspired hope without trivializing the disaster. Since its posting, more than three hundred readers have clicked, in nearly equal numbers, that they agreed or disagreed with this comment.
I really don't quite understand what those clicks mean. The reader was reacting to the column. Did "disagree" mean that my column didn't inspire hope? Or that the event itself was too horrible to inspire hope?
My Mom has an on-line community! Cool, right?
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