Do you want to cheer on your favorite high school scholar or athlete? Vent about how traffic was tied up after a fender bender? Share your thoughts on the most recent City Council or School board proposal? Or, perhaps you have a suggestion of your own about how to improve our community.
We want to hear about it and, chances are, your neighbors do too.
The Issaquah and Sammamish Reporter newspapers want to add a lot more “community” to your community news Web sites. Visitors to our sites can now contribute their own comments to all of our news stories, editorials and letters to the editor. We want to hear from you — and we want you to have the chance to hear from each other.
Every community has standards, and ours is no exception. We ask that you keep your comments on-topic and that they are smart, civil and profanity-free. Try to avoid saying anything you wouldn’t want your mother to read.
To comment, you must have a user account. Getting one requires answering three easy questions and you can sign up at the bottom of any story on our site. It is important that all participants in a discussion be honest about their identity so we prefer that you use your real name when commenting, though it’s not required. To start things off on the right foot, we do require this of all our employees.
Sometimes people’s passions get the better of them and they leave comments that don’t meet our community standards. In those cases, we ask that you help police the comments by using the “Flag” button beneath each comment. Flagged items are brought to an administrator’s attention.
On the rare occasion when someone simply doesn’t want to live by our community standards, we may prevent them from using the site.
Your opinion counts. Our comments have up and down arrows next to them which allow you to register your approval or disapproval of specific comments with a single click. Comments with a high negative rating from users will disappear from the site, while contributors whose comments generate high positive ratings will be rewarded.
Our goal with this feature is to encourage community discussion and healthy debate and we hope that you will give it a try. Join the conversation today at www.issaquah-reporter.com or www.sammamish-reporter.com.
