Last week we asked you, our readers, what you thought about our removal of the comments system from our website, in accordance with the psak din from Lubavitcher Rabbonim forbidding the publication of comments. We received many responses by email from you, our users, and have chosen to publish several which represent different views. Please continue sending us your feedback to
editor@chabad.info and we will publish the interesting responses. ●
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A big, big, big yoshar koach to you for following the dictates of the rabbonim about comments on the site. I always felt that the comments on these sites have created one of the most devastating effects on our community and youth, but I never thought anything could be done about it. After Rabbi Bell spoke about it in 770, I see that a move was made. I sincerely appreciate your listening to the rabbonim and doing your part to save our youth. May you be blessed many fold for your efforts.
Sara Best
The letter from the Rabbonim should be heeded. But sometimes comments can help and provide information leading to safety tips etc., so please leave an area for direct input to be shared constructively.
Tom Hagen
You should be very proud in leading the way for all web sites, to show how it should be in accordance to living with Moshiach. The comments section was a place of Loshon hara and of Rechilus and everyone who was an Asken and trying to do the Rebbe's work was tainted and smeared by the comments. Who wrote them? People who have nothing else to do with their lives. I tell you it is refreshing not to see the comments. Keep up the good work in helping to prepare the world to greet the Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach.
Shmuel
I would like comments to be allowed up with moderation and under strict guidelines. Perhaps this can be discussed with the rabbonim who said "no comments." For example, with the Liberow-Azoulai tragedy, on collive.com I learned information from the comments that was important to me. I don't need to read "BDE" and "ad mosai" etc. over and over in comments. But I did like finding out the connection to the car accident last week, involving Shterna bas Devora Rochel, that she is R' Liberow's niece, and that R' Liberow's mother and sibling died in a car accident decades ago, and that he is an einikel of R' Mendel Futerfas, and that R' Liberow was no longer in critical condition.
Mrs. Y. Homnick
The "no comments" policy is definitely a most positive improvement. The comments were (sadly) many times used to express negative sentiments. Although the editor of each website has the option of deleting negative comments, nevertheless "certain" websites thrive on these very negative comments. I would like to see the Rabbonim enforce the "no comments" rule on all websites serving the Lubavitch community throughout the world. It will greatly reduce a lot of "sinas chinom" and "machloikes" and perhaps even put the websites who thrive on the negative out of business. This should have been done long ago.
Yankel Spritzer
If this is what the Rebbe wants, then there's no question as to which way is better. As far as I personally am concerned, most of the comments were brainless anyway, so it's just as well. Keep up your good work. Yechi Hamelech! (Just wish he would reveal himself already!)
Here is my "two cents" which you can share on your site.
Yehudis Engel