# Do you follow your local Patch? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 12, 2013, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-follow-your-local-patch/658175 "2013-05-12T21:59:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-follow-your-local-patch/658175/41 "2013-05-14T13:41:31Z")
So is this a USA only thing? ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-follow-your-local-patch/658175/42 "2013-05-14T13:44:52Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > Honestly, I’ve read a few Patch pages and never found anything remotely resembling interesting content. It’s like a Web version of one of those local shopper magazines which exist only to publish advertising … boredom personified. Our Patch might publish a town news item or interview every so often, but for the most part it’s the digitalized version of our weekly shopper tabloid. Honestly, I don’t know why either of them bothers to stick around. The only thing the weekly shopper is good for is to find a local contractor or such. Most of them don’t even advertise on our Patch. ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-follow-your-local-patch/658175/43 "2013-05-14T13:53:10Z")
(missed edit window) The other thing I wanted to add is that we also have a long-established town newspaper. We also have a regional paper that covers every single municipality within a 40 mile radius. And, of course, the big city papers. In other words, for an area like ours, having a Patch, IMO, is redundant. I can see it working, however, in less-populated areas where there isn’t a local paper. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-follow-your-local-patch/658175/44 "2013-05-14T14:00:56Z")
AOL thinks that I am still in the place where I originally signed up for them, so when I go to [aol.com](http://aol.com) I get the wrong Patch. If I cared enough to figure out how to change my hometown, it might actually be useful, but not so useful that I will try to. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-follow-your-local-patch/658175/45 "2013-05-14T14:53:09Z")
Oregon-No Patch. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-follow-your-local-patch/658175/46 "2013-05-14T17:23:42Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > Again, same here. The funny thing is that I looked up my former hometown edition once, and it seemed like the same uber-right, no-on-everything folks were posting there, too. I’m not sure if the suppressing of comments is a good thing or bad; the correct thing would have been more alert and sensitive moderation, but of course that costs money and doesn’t bring in ad clicks. On ours, the ringleader of the anti-education whackos consistently posts comments on stories that have nothing to do with town government, taking swipes at them. They always get deleted within a day or so. And it seems every story about a Town Meeting or Board of Selectmen meeting includes the sentence “Mr. XYZ was escorted from the meeting by police officers.” ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-follow-your-local-patch/658175/47 "2013-05-14T17:35:17Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Oregon-No Patch. What comes after Oregon-No, or am I following 16mo? I will go with _Basilicumo_ (WTF is Patch) ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-follow-your-local-patch/658175/48 "2013-05-14T17:41:47Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > AOL thinks that I am still in the place where I originally signed up for them, so when I go to [aol.com](http://aol.com) I get the wrong Patch. If I cared enough to figure out how to change my hometown, it might actually be useful, but not so useful that I will try to. It takes about two seconds if you’re logged in. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-follow-your-local-patch/658175.md?page=2)