The comment section on LoCO can be a source of good information and it can be a rather horrifying place. It depends on what is posted and how it is posted. Below is a reminder of the guidelines we ask you to follow. 

But before you look at the guidelines, you might want to take some time to identify which Flame Warrior fits you best. The site shown in the screenshot has compiled a rather funny list. Do the LoCO admin’s fit the description here?  What is the title of that commenter who annoys you the most? Click Begin to go through the whole list.

Guidelines for posting comments

We want you to respond and add information. This is helpful to the whole community. However, some types of comments make communication difficult. We have been formulating our policy on comments and ask you to stick to these guidelines.

1. No threats.

2. No insults. (Particularly no racist, sexist, or homophobic taunts. Stick with things you don’t like about an idea not blanket statements about the person communicating the idea.)

3. No naming an individual as guilty of a crime they haven’t been accused of committing by law enforcement (and we encourage you to remember that until a court has found someone guilty, an accused person is considered innocent.)  

4. Make sense. (We are cognizant of the fact that all of us can fail to communicate but continued and frequent incoherence will get you a warning followed by a reduction in your ability to post.)

Guidelines for posting comments

We want you to respond and add information. This is helpful to the whole community. However, some types of comments make communication difficult. We have been formulating our policy on comments and ask you to stick to these guidelines.

1. No threats.

2. No insults. (Particularly no racist, sexist, or homophobic taunts. Stick with things you don’t like about an idea not blanket statements about the person communicating the idea.)

3. No naming an individual as guilty of a crime they haven’t been adjudged guilty of committing in a court of law. 

4. Make sense. (We are cognizant of the fact that all of us can fail to communicate but continued and frequent incoherence will get you a warning followed by a reduction in your ability to post.)

UPDATE, 1:30 p.m.: Both southbound lanes are closed just south of Westhaven at the moment. Traffic is being diverted into the leftmost northbound lane.

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A KHUM caller alerts us to a pretty hairy-sounding accident at or near the Little River Bridge by 101. A camp trailer has overturned on the freeway, blocking lanes.

The CHP, which is still getting up on the incident at the time of this writing, says only “OVERTURNED TRAILER” and “PEOPLE IN TRAFFIC.”

The Humboldt Bachelorette is a mysterious single female blogger with a sense of humor and feet firmly planted in North Coast soil.  She talks about the pitfalls of small town dating and offers some friendly tips.  Here’s an excerpt from one of my favorite pieces:

Soon I’m being flirted with by a couple of hometown heroes, friends of my brothers. I’m not interested. Not that they’re not nice, but, well, you’d have to add them together to get a full set of teeth. And I don’t feel like doing the complicated research to find out whether or not we’re related. 

She has a new post out about how to meet men in Humboldt that is actually quite practical.  And the captions to the photos are laugh out loud funny.

Here are some situations in which online anonymity is understandable:

1. You have something nice to say.

2. You live in a country where putting your name on your words risks your life. Iran or Syria, for example. Burma. Saudi Arabia. Tunisia, Egypt, China or Vietnam. Cuba or Turnmenistan.

Living in Humboldt County in Northern California in the U.S.A., not so much.

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