07.16.2009 11:36 am

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editors this morning shut down readers’ ability to comment on the story “Drugs played no role in Coleman slayings.” Before the shutdown, the story drew 1,189 comments. Many of them were inappropriate, some vulgar.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch and STLtoday.com staffers try…

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05.18.2009 7:24 pm

Using profanity is a sure way to get a story comment deleted

By Steve Parker

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

You might be surprised how often an otherwise intelligent reader comment to an online story is deleted because of a gratuitous profanity. Cuss words, even masked as #### and —–, are likely to get flagged by fellow readers.

“Profanity,” “masked profanity”…

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