sthistle
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- First Name
- Scott
- Last Name
- Thistle
- The city or town you live in
- Auburn, Maine
- Gender
- Male
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Scott Thistle is the regional editor for the Sun Journal.
Thistle supervises the Sun Journal reporters in the Oxford and Franklin county bureaus. He also supervises the reporters that cover local government and public education in Lewiston-Auburn.
E-mail him at sthistle@sunjournal.com or call 207-689-2849.
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sthistle's Comments
Thank you
Pirate and parrot,
Thanks for staying with us through it all. Your sense of humor is always appreciated. And while I don't always like everything you write -- I'm sure you don't like everything I write either -- I do like your loyalty to our community and your style and you do make us laugh. You're a case study in the transition from the land of the unknown to this thing we have now. Your notoriety and wit have long prevailed. "There are good ships and wood ships and ships that sail the sea, but the best ships are friendships and may ours always be." That's probably not an acceptable pirate toast, but nautical at least. Cheers.
Good suggestions, good ideas
Martha,
I like your thoughts and ideas. And wonder if there is a common ground we can get to. But we worry that, as you point out, the people who are prone to abuse the rules and the system would only be more inclined to do so if they could mask their identity from the other members in the conversation. We will chew on your idea. It's a good one.
Scott
You have a good point
Scott,
I think you summed it up fairly. People who really, really want to have their voices heard can. But the question is always do we want to hear the same old songs all the time again and again. It's a difficult choice to open it up and return to a sewer-like environment that the SJ staff is tasked with cleaning up and policing. I do like the idea of allowing users to block the comments they don't want to see and a positive ranking system that would move popular or at least well-liked comments higher. We are in the midst of a grand experiment with how we interact with our audience and how they interact with each other. These are fun and interesting times for journalists and we love our work. Especially when we KNOW there are smart, thoughtful and considerate people who are interested and concerned about our communities and each other.
Latest Maine poll is interesting.
It shows 86 percent of Mainers actually support wind power. There's a full copy of the poll results at the bottom of this story on the poll. I just thought it was an interesting result given there is so much anecdotal evidence referenced in the comments on any wind power story. According to nearly every poll I've seen Mainers are largely in favor of renewable energy projects.
http://www.sunjournal.com/news/state/2011/12/06/latest-maine-poll-featur...
updates
This story will be updated with additional information within the next few hours. This is largely the information the Attorney General's office has supplied. We have had a reporter out at the scene most of the day and will be updating with some additional details as we have them. Thanks for your interest in this story.