Victory! Earlier, we argued that newspapers should stop slumming as blogs and disallow comments on their websites. Now, at least the Maui News has. "Dear readers," the letter from the publisher begins. "Due to flagrant abuse of the privilege—including continual name-calling, crude language, profanity, slander, threats and racism—the Maui News will no longer allow comments to be posted on its Web site... the volume, frequency and vileness of the abusers' postings have grown beyond the newspaper's capacity to remove them in a timely manner." If readers can't handle nice things, they will be taken away! [Maui News via Romenesko]

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