go to the article
assess the context of the comment. Was the commenter responding to another inappropriate comment or did he or she just get nasty?
Or was it flagged because a reader felt it was so good it could be turned into an article? If so, leave the article flagged, add a comment in response to the commenter, and then, click on the commenter's name to go to his or her member page, and send a message encouraging that the comment be made into an article.
Decide whether to continue to allow the comment to be visible or not, then hide it, delete it or let it stay.
Reflag, deflag-- decide.
If you want to hide it, but show that it was flagged and hidden, hide it, reflag it to display message, then write in the field WHY it is flagged. (usually ad hominem personal attack or hate language.)
BTW, if YOU see an article that needs flagging, in the box where it says reason, add that you will deal with the flag, so, when the message goes out to editors, they will know they don't need to respond to it.
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Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.
Check out his platform at RobKall.com
He is the author of The Bottom-up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity
He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and pioneered
first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and
Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful
people on his Bottom Up Radio Show,
and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and
opinion sites, OpEdNews.com
more detailed bio:
Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness (more...)
