[PugMom]

Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive

I know of the site. I don't subscribe to Facebook but my wife does and I read it on her device from time to time. I know what is there.

I also had a paid subscription to V I L L A G E S - N E W S, which I dropped because I don't want to subsidize anyone grinding an axe. I read the comments there too. Exhaustively. It just bears out what was previously stated: a few malcontents (maybe 5 to 10) posting under an endless variety of screen names and spewing an endless stream of vitriol; folks who are apparently allowed to continue posting there even though their posts continually break the Terms of Service that the paper referenced so piously claims to honor.

But just to turn the tables a bit...have any folks reflecting the opinions of the post being responded to actually ever made any effort to get to KNOW some local folks, that is, beyond an occasional desultory impersonal greeting to the people who might cut the grass or collect the trash? If not, then I submit that any opinions posted by such people are merely reflections of their own prejudices, meaningless regurgitations of the opinions of other people, merely because those opinions reflect THEIR baseless opinions.

you have summed it up perfectly