Comments on: Mark this date: Topix is no more

By: tut

tut — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 23:59:45 +0000

you folk cannot deal with real freedom of speech, your thin skined ,weak, wimpish folk, unable to deal with it.

By: Idaho

Idaho — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 05:44:11 +0000

Having looked over the 63 comments above there are a few familiar names that are still on the Topix Greenwich forum but the rest seem to have disappeared for good. I think that tells you something about your new comment system!!

As for Sheila’s comment I would agree that some of the comment that shows up on the net is trash but I for one am able to sort it out for myself and don’t need big brother to protect me. It’s kind of like porn there’s lots of it out there. Watching it or not is your choice. I think they call that “Free Speech”

By: Bren

Bren — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 01:58:47 +0000

Thank you for taking a stand against the most vile, disgusting site on the internet, Topix. How they can claim to a legit news reporting site is beyond me. The unmoderated forums are complete garbage. Have you see many of them in the state of Kentucky, West Virginia, or Tennessee? They are awful. You have a group of cowards who go in and post innocent people’s names and make up a bunch of complete lies with the intention of hurting people. This can cost people their jobs, reputations, you name it. One day someone is going to commit suicide or harm another over that site. In a day and age of cyberbulling, for Topix and the companies that own Topix to allow that to happen is deplorable.

By: WEL

WEL — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:05:38 +0000

You will not see the above name on TOPIX
I have been banned for telling the verifiable truth

By: Sheila

Sheila — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 01:19:51 +0000

I am way late on this but the topix forums should be banned altogether. Topix is no longer a newssite, but a hate site. Go to many small town forums and citizen’s names will be mentioned with several spineless posters saying horrible things about extramarital affairs, calling people hoes and skanks, names, talking about children, and a variety of other things. That isn’t news people that is pure garbage and innocent lives can be ruined. That site is terrible.

By: Hannah

Hannah — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 06:46:24 +0000

Certainly, some of the Topix comments were indeed offensive, but all I had to do was skip over the posters offensive to me. I really liked the variety of perspectives coming in from all over the world, and I think some townies even liked the “spherical” reaction to local subjects. When I lived in town, both the beautiful and ugly side of humanity co-existed in a certain kind of balance, understanding, and visibility. Nowhere is this duality more visible now than in NYC. I can only imagine what goes on behind the locked gates of the mansions (though Madoff, Dick, Skakel, and Helmseley gave us a tiny glimpse), but it’s foolish to think this town does not have a distaff side, any more than one can consume white veal without acknowledging the disproportionate and “ugly” suffering the calf must go through to make that meat white. Or build a gleaming mansion (of which less than 20 percent will actually be used) without acknowledging the damage done to the environment. Despite all the ignorant comments (which most of us readers are competent to recognize as such without fainting away), I honestly think this paper–and this town-benefited from hearing such a wide variety of perspectives in Topix. It will be interesting to see just how much “edge” will be “allowed” into the newly screened comments. On the other hand, this paper seems to be joining my CA hometown paper which does not publish ANY commentary it politically disagrees with. Pity.

By: Our voice shrinks

Our voice shrinks — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:14:35 +0000

I will miss the comments, vile, good, pointed, or otherwise. This is life, and this is humanity in all its diversity and rainbow of colors.

I guess the Advocate never read the comments, only heard the complaints. There were many instances which valid tips and suggestions were given, some of which were probably worthy of an investigative follow-up.

In any event, it seems the Advocate is carrying on the torch being followed by so many newspapers these days, that the only opinion worth printing is the opinion of the paper itself and its accomplices in teh government. None originating elsewhere is worth the ink. Even if ink in cyberspace costs nothing.

That torch is consuming the traditional news outlets, rather than lighting the way.

I believe the next step will soon be to convert this website to a paid subscription. We will pay to watch the advertising.

Thank goodness there is an abundance of other sites on the Internet which are not afraid to engage in alternative journalism and open and frank (even if raunchy) discussion.

By: Marilyn

Marilyn — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:31:44 +0000

This is good news.

I too support freedom of speech but the intent was to allow people to voice their criticism of government and express their ideas freely without fear of reprisal. It was not intended to allow the psychological abuse of another or to allow slander designed to destroy the reputation of another.

One can object or promote ideas without inciting riots or encouraging violence though some object to even those restrictions.

It is a difficult balance.

By: Diana S

Diana S — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:48:06 +0000

Wow, I finally found out what happened to the comment link at the end of the articles – someone was nice enough to post it to topix.

I am frankly surprised at the Advocates decision…makes reading the news less interesting if you cannot read comments or make comments.

As others have stated many of the missing facts related to a story only come out in the comment section.

I hope the Advocate gets there system up and running soon.

I hate to be a pessimist, but I cannot see how they are going to police it any better than topix did. Topix seemed fast in reacting to “questionable” material.

By: Tony E Neuman

Tony E Neuman — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:23:19 +0000

It was good while it lasted. Good bye