Keep it civil
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- April
- 10
We’ve had a few nasty comments recently so I feel it’s necessary to remind all posters to adhere to our Terms of Service. Here’s the simple version, taken from the comments section of every blog post:
“It is a condition of your use of the comment features associated with the blogs that you do not: Use the site to post or transmit any unlawful, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane or indecent information of any kind, including without limitation any transmissions constituting or encouraging conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any local, state, national or international law. You alone are responsible for the material you post or send.”
Specifically the problem has been people making accusatory and mean-spirited statements without substantiation. This is a no-no. Neither Josh nor I have any desire to censor or ban anyone, but we will do both if we feel the Terms of Service are clearly being violated.
This entry was posted
on Thursday, April 10th, 2008 at 4:30 pm by Jake Thomases. 
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Josh Thomson has done some of everything since joining The Journal News in March 2003. He began working for the Gannett weeklies during the winter of 2002 as a freelance writer. He joined the daily staff soon after and has since covered various high school and pro sports. Away from sportswriting, Josh lives in Westchester and spends his free time either with his fiancee, Sarah, or expertly managing his various championship-winning fantasy sports teams. He's visited 21 major-league baseball stadiums and insists that Fenway Park and Wrigley Field are the best by far. Josh graduated from Carmel High School in 1998, then went to Boston University, where, in 2002, he received a degree in communications with a minor in history.
Jake/Josh,
I understand you guys don’t want to kick anyone off of the blog, but this Nanuet stuff is getting absolutely out of control. It was bad enough before, but now…
Mike Hoops
April 17th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Wow, you guys have some funny comments (sarcasm)
ha ha
I am a teacher actually, yet if I were a custodian it would be ok. Do Nanuet parents look down at custodians???Is that a job that is beneath Nanuet people?
You live in Nanuet not a truly nice place like Scarsdale, so stop acting like you are better then others.
I thought they only ran coaches out of town!!! Watch out custodians or band directors, uh maybe the cheerleading coach is next! YIKES
Nanuet parents = Little league parents
I’m not from Nanuet and I do think the Nanuet paretns are justified to show concern about a coach, but should probably reel it back a little bit. I understand he’s not being threatening, etc., but it this really what this blog is meant for? If you don’t throw someone like Mike Vicante off then it will just continue to get out of control as the threats to “ban” will obviously just be empty ones.