As previously announced, The Montana Standard is changing its commenting policy, beginning Jan. 1, 2016, to use commenters’ real names, not usernames.
Because of certain limitations in our web site’s content management system, The Standard initially announced that unless we received requests from individual commenters for previous comments to be removed, earlier comments would as of Jan. 1 be displayed with real names.
We are concerned that such a change would not be fair to those who are either unaware of the pending change or have not contacted us.
So instead, all comments in the system as of Dec. 31 will be removed, and going forward, on Jan. 1, all new comments will be posted with real names in accordance with the Standard’s new policy.
While we regret losing the earlier comments, we believe it’s a better result than having people’s names on previous comments revealed.
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Comments will still be moderated to enforce standards of civility.
We appreciate the feedback about the change in policy and look forward to a better commenting environment on mtstandard.com.
