‘Comments on stories’ start today on STLtoday
Faithful readers, a version of this note appears in today’s Post-Dispatch…and I want to make sure all our online fans see it, too, since you’re the ones who most benefit from it!
Today, I invite you to try a new feature on STLtoday: Readers can now post comments on stories on the site, or respond to other readers’ comments.
Comments will appear at the bottom of every story*. Everyone is welcome to participate, but you must be a registered member of STLtoday.com to post a comment. If you’ve ever registered for our forums, blogs, contests or newsletters, you’re already a member. Just use the login link at the bottom of each story.
Otherwise, click the registration link and take 60 seconds to fill out the free registration. Soon you’ll be ready to go.
This feature joins numerous other sections of STLtoday where we encourage and promote reader participation: We welcome comments on all our blogs. We have robust forums where many of you start threads and watch them grow. We invite your photos (and comments on those photos) in IWitness.
So, with this new feature, we remain eager to hear what you have to say and we know many of you look for ways to express yourself about the news. We welcome the conversation.
Remember: This is your forum, but we cannot review all the comments before they go online. We’ve been careful to spell out commenting guidelines and we’ve included a link to those guidelines from every story. They’re basically pretty simple: Be smart, be civil. Don’t say anything you wouldn’t want your mother to read.
We also hope you’ll join us in helping to keep the conversation civil. Use the tools on the page to report any abuses. We’ll review and remove anything that violates our guidelines.
Watch today as the comments feature rolls out on STLtoday. Soon, all our stories will have that feature. If you see a story online that really moves you, dive in and comment. We want to hear what you have to say — and so do your fellow readers.
* They won’t show up on some national and world news stories that are fed into our system automatically.
Kurt Greenbaum
Director of Social Media
Kurt is the director of social media for the Post-Dispatch, where he has worked since August 2002. He's been a journalist since 1982, covering municipal government, courts, education and two hurricanes as a reporter before becoming an editor. 
What an awful idea. As if this website couldn’t get any worse, letting the public rant about every story is just a dumb idea. Talk a look at KSDK.com for proof.