OR IS IT MAKING PORT CHESTER A BITTER PLACE?
http://www.facebook.com/groups/citzensforabetterportchester/
UNFORTUNATELY, THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME THAT THIS CONTROVERSIAL PORT CHESTER GROUP HAS RAN INTO TROUBLE IN THE VILLAGE.....
BY CLAIRE K. RACINE
A Facebook page dedicated to making Port Chester a better place has instead sowed discord among village residents, acting as a staging location for people to air complaints and rage against other residents.
Efforts by the administrators to manage the page only caused more controversy with allegations of cover-ups and censorship.
The page, appropriately called “Making Port Chester a better place,” was started on Aug. 16 by residents hoping to improve their village.
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We started this page as a way of bringing the community together,” said Liz Rotfeld, one of the founders. “Since it started, there have been several instances when people’s posts have been very negative.”
One such instance was last week when one of the members posted a comment railing against Port Chester Mayor Dennis Pilla about a religion class he had taught for Corpus Christi Church. George Otero, whose son was in the class, chose to personally attack Pilla on the Facebook page.
Rotfeld, after conferring with the other administrators of the page, including fellow founder Keith Morlino, decided to eliminate the post, and the comments that followed it, because it was not appropriate.
“A page like that should not be used for attacks on people,” she said.
After deleting the initial thread, Rotfeld posted an explanation on the page. This prompted another outpouring of anger, with many of the messages directed at Rotfeld for “censoring” the page. Eventually, the 100+ comments on the deletion were also removed. Both Rotfeld and Morlino stand by their decision to eliminate both the post and subsequent response because they were not germane to the topic of the page.
Otero, who first railed against Pilla and then spoke out about the deletion of his post, refused to comment on his reasons for writing on the Facebook page and the administrators’ decision to eliminate his posts.
This is not the first time a comment has been deleted from the Facebook account......
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