I think the comment from last week was pretty indicative of what the attempt was. I definitely don’t feel flattered and I feel pretty grown up so don’t worry about that.

I seriously doubt that is your real name and based on how last week’s comment was written I have a pretty good idea of who would be writing it. The same cheerleader since 2012. Good luck to you.

I along with many other Citizens support HCCA. With that said I also have to respect people that may not. Im so sorry that something as minutiae as another individual with your same name stresses you out.

Is this the reason my post was deleted due to the FACT that people from Citizens Group has claimed they are being impersonated. This is the definition of “Bias”

I hope it makes you feel more secure me using my middle name.

Please grow up!

But I would like to address that someone attempted to impersonate me last week by putting a comment as it was from me. It indicated that I changed my mind because I was given false information that I didn’t research and that I thought HCCA was the best thing for our hospital.

I want to stress that I absolutely do not feel that way for so many reasons. My opinions were developed by researching data and not what someone told me. The disappointing thing from HCCA and some of their employees is that they fail to recognize that a good majority of the community is not supportive of their actions because they actually did research.

So it doesn’t matter how many times that you indicate that we are trying to sabotage with lies and deceit it just isn’t true. We are bringing out the truth, the community is bright enough to educate themselves and make their own decisions. I can speak for the Citizens Group as a whole to state that we would never support impersonating someone else.

I have removed numerous posts from him and others that have clearly crossed the line and will continue to do so.

Please feel free to reply here or email me at tony@ourvalleyvoice.com if you have any other questions.

Hi, Kassandra, the reason a recent comment — up for about 30 minutes — was removed, and I needed to post a reminder, was that someone impersonated another person and spoke, in the first person, as if they were them. It was pretty clear that this wasn’t the actual person.

For the sake of example, I will say that someone impersonated me, posted as “Tony,” and wrote “I take candy from babies.”

Now — of course I don’t take candy from babies. In fact, candy’s pretty cheap since it’s a few days after Valentine’s Day, so I’d just go down to the Walgreens. But the issue is that if someone posted as “Tony” and said that, people might believe that I truly take candy from babies. That’s the problem.

If someone posted as “Tony’s Alter Ego” and said “Tony takes candy from babies” — that seems pretty clear that, off the bat, it’s not me. And they’re talking about me in the third person.

That’s the case in the two examples you cited.

I don’t like those types of comments. They’re troll-ish and don’t contribute anything to the conversation. If they continue en masse, I may need to see if we can revisit that, or ban the appropriate posters as necessary.

But, as you’ve said, everyone has a voice and an opinion. That’s what makes our comment section a lot more lively than the other newspapers — by and large, we try to keep things that way.

Hope this helps. Please feel free to reply here or email me at tony@ourvalleyvoice.com if you have any other questions.

Although I do still see that person there , so I hope this paper doesn’t just pick people’s comments who they want on here. Everyone has a Voice and everyone has a opinion.

Impersonating other commenters is not OK.

Please let this serve as a reminder.