Poll: Was the Guardian right to shut down problem blog?

[Loliver]

Last week Max Gogarty's first blog post for a new Guardian travel section blog about his gap year travel received - rightly or wrongly - some staunch criticism from the paper's readers - read our blog review of what happened http://www.journalism.co.uk/shorturl/VZAQI/ and Max's original post http://www.journalism.co.uk/shorturl/WEIIM/

Was the blog an editorial oversight or does responsibility for the backlash lie with the writer? Did the Guardian react correctly by calling the whole thing off?

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[simonburgess]

Some of those comments were pure gold. Someone sign up 'Finneyonthewing' now.

The anger should have been directed exclusively at the ed rather than Max. Seriously, what was he thinking?...

[evilpixie]

I couldn't give my opinion right now, the comments left afterwards had quite a hypnotic effect.