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Re: Popular bloggers delete comments?

Meg Kelso — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:50:52 -0000

I delete comments all the time as well. I don't have to do it often, just the idea of comment moderation stops most weasels. But the nature of my blog attracts a few nuts and I refuse to give them a forum. Let them write their own blog. That's what I did.

Meg Kelso

Re: Popular bloggers delete comments?

Comic Strip Blogger — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:05:40 -0000

Dave Winer deletes comments. He is a pig.

Re: Popular bloggers delete comments?

CetaMac — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:30:16 -0000

I'm begging for comment spam on my blog..........

Re: Popular bloggers delete comments?

pigeonblog — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:49:13 -0000

worse than that, he only has a partial feed so fuck him anyway

Re: Popular bloggers delete comments?

pigeonblog — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:48:48 -0000

why is it bad? surely its like a newspaper editor selecting letters to publish?

Re: Popular bloggers delete comments?

Ray CHOW — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 02:58:41 -0000

who wishes to implement the "RSS Republic"?

Don't miss the "RSS Republic", the tool that will fix the blogosphere censorship issue :cool:

Re: Popular bloggers delete comments?

Richard Brownell — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 08:36:21 -0000

Christopher: That's why I wasn't outting the comment moderation itself. I've got a fairly popular video game website and we need to moderate our comments. I've taken heat for that, even been called Hitler before. So I don't have a problem with your typical "keep it clean and relevant" moderation policies.

Re: Popular bloggers delete comments?

Kristaps Kaupe — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 07:09:08 -0000

Well, I don't delete comments that I don't like. But I delete comments that aren't related to blog post they are commenting.

Re: Popular bloggers delete comments?

scobleizer — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 01:49:44 -0000

Christopher: I doubt I'll be doing the outting. I'm too busy.

Re: Popular bloggers delete comments?

Christopher Coulter — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 01:24:01 -0000

Well, I wasn't so much in specific regards to this issue itself, but this isn't the first time Scoble wrongly needles on JCD re: Spamtrap Gate. But, JCD ever so often posts loony crazy web-creature conspiracy theories on his blog, which is totally out of kilter to his more skeptical column. So heat where heat needs be. But John has a pretty good blog, gets more of the news and weird bits than most blogs. But yeah, the Britney-bit, ummm....

Outting is a bad bad idea, imposing your blog moral judgement on others. So I dearly hope Scoble bites.

Re: Popular bloggers delete comments?

Richard Brownell — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 21:46:54 -0000

I'm aware of Dvorak's posting guidelines and I don't believe I broke them. Pointing out the truth is not on that list. It wasn't spam like Chris Coulter said. And I certainly wasn't making a personal attack against an editor as I'd have to have a personal vendetta against somebody to do that. Considering I find Dvorak to be one of the more entertaining twit hosts, I don't know why I would be making an attack. I don't tend to hang around people's blogs just to find things to attack them for.

But seriously, if you're going to publish outright lies-- and with added photoshopped lies at that-- on your blog, you really need to be prepared to take a little heat on it. Moderate out the truth if you want. Maybe I seem like the troublemaker for bothering to blog this issue, but at least I don't seem the fool.

Re: Popular bloggers delete comments?

Alex Hutton — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 20:49:03 -0000

Godwin deletes all the time.

But deleting is well within their rights. It's there property. Personally? I've left comments in when they point out how wrong I am (surprised it doesn't happen more often) or even point out silly spelling errors (I do most of my blogging at 5am). I'm human, you can disagree - it's fine. Heck, with the world the way it is today (Dems vs. Rep., Muslims vs. everyone) I feel like I should lead the way with a little opinion tolerance.

Re: Popular bloggers delete comments?

scobleizer — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 20:06:53 -0000

Mike: true enough. But why shouldn't I be able to make fun of them on my blog? Isn't that limiting my ability to have some fun here on my blog?

Christopher: oh, and you don't think I get nutty stalker mode comments? Hmmm. What makes John so special? ;-)

Re: Popular bloggers delete comments?

Mike — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 19:59:01 -0000

"outing" people that delete comments is just a stupid idea at best. Its their blog, they can do whatever they like. If they chose to not delete comments, and have frank open discussions then I appluade them, but we should not lower ourselves to McCarthian practices by "outing" those that don't keep their blogs the way you think they should.

Re: Popular bloggers delete comments?

Christopher Coulter — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 19:50:38 -0000

Well, it wasn't deleting as so much as spam moderating. But never let the facts get in the way of an idle charge against JCD, I doubt you'd do the same for aanother fellow blogger. If you have watched his blog, which pretty obvious you haven't, he's had a pretty lively discussional mode, many people yagging him, many people supporting him. But then he can get the abusive posters that cross a line into the 'nutty stalker mode'. Your bias is so obvious. I had one comment that I thought he killed, but in fact it showed up the next day, sometimes you have to give it time and not jump to conculsions and yell censorship. Besides if you go down THAT road, I can name nearly 50 bloggers that practice censorship and do it overtly and make no BONES about it.

Re: Popular bloggers delete comments?

John C. Dvorak — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 19:44:36 -0000

Yeah I delete comments because they do not follow the comment criteria which is clearly stated here: http://www.dvorak.org/blog/... (please steal and use this list yourselves!) -- it's called a "moderated blog." Geez, not unusual by any means. It just takes more work.

Re: Popular bloggers delete comments?

Jørgen Veisdal — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 19:34:51 -0000

Let's not get overexcited here, John is known for allowing discussions to happen in his blog.

http://NoBlogger.org

jveisdal.

Re: Popular bloggers delete comments?

Andreas Rodler — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:08:13 -0000

I just delete silly postings like "nelson" or "haha", and comments with spellflames, I hate spellflames :-)

Re: Popular bloggers delete comments?

scobleizer — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 17:55:09 -0000

Tish: I'm hearing more and more about people who delete comments that don't agree with their position. I think that kind of comment grazing sucks. If you can't put up with people who don't agree with you then go with the Russell Beattie approach and turn off comments altogether. Deleting SPAM and over the top offensive or racist ones is cool with me. But, just deleting them cause you don't agree with them? Seems naughty to me. But maybe it's just me.

Re: Popular bloggers delete comments?

Ryan B — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 17:45:22 -0000

I have had to delete a few other than spams. I have a post concerning the world's largest bear. I had to delete a few that were calling commenters dumb and saying how dumb I was posting it. Then a week or two ago I had to delete about 10 comments from an user because they used a post as a personal testing and a spot to inflate his coComment number. After posting 7 comments on one post in under 5minutes, WP started marking them as spam. Then he cussed my blog out for not posting his comments. He is still bitter.

Re: Popular bloggers delete comments?

Tish Grier — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 17:44:52 -0000

"outing" people who delete comments?? wow! that's harsh! Never thought of you as a storm-trooper kinda guy, Scoble.

Besides, sometime ya gotta delete. How many "comments" for male enhancement products and on-line poker should we really allow on our blogs? I kind of like Jim Turner's idea--add them to look more popular! now if we could only come up with a scheme to add links and game the Technorati 100 ;-)

Re: Popular bloggers delete comments?

scobleizer — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 17:43:43 -0000

concretejesus: bloggers can't block all comments. For instance, you can see all the bloggers who've commented about Kim Cameron's blog here: http://www.bloglines.com/ci...

Re: Popular bloggers delete comments?

randymorin — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 17:19:10 -0000

I couldn't count how many comments I delete per day. If I guessed, then it would be about 100. And I do it for all sorts of stupid reasons. For instance, I deleted all comments with the term 'Blogspot' because 99% of them were SPAM anyway. Sorry to the 1%, but it's the only way I can manage 100s of comments per day. I also delete comments with foul and spam terms 'rape', 'f---', 'texas-holdem', etc. It's my blog.

Re: Popular bloggers delete comments?

Ray CHOW — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:55:44 -0000

I always suspect people who are afraid to sit near to ugly persons ... as if one would not make any difference ... same as for censorship supposedly to fight against "irrelevancies" ... should not be so sure about one's own pertinence ...

Re: Popular bloggers delete comments?

concretejesus — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:48:53 -0000

Kim cameron doesn't publish any comments to his blog.

This guy is pushing the "The web has an identity crisis" and keeps the shouting down by avoiding any feedback whatsoever.

So, here's somethings to check out that Kim won't publish:

The Internet works pretty great without identity management. Look how many people are using it to create services, wealth and jobs.

Identity theft which seems to always be the justification for ID management do not go together. Just like the TV ads that claim broadband internet is "more secure" than dialup, it's nonsense.

My feeling is the "crisis" is manufactured to meet many goals:

1. Privatize the web. Kim's employer needs to know exactly who you are to limit your consumption for the service you paid. e.g. your computer as a pay-per-view-box. Where's the incentive for an individual to innovate?

2. Securitize the web. Establish control over content production on the web. This is the back-end to the pay-per-view model. Of course someone wants to further monetize that and make people pay for what was once almost free. Again, bye-bye innovation.

3. Better track individual activity. I don't really care about this because I'm not doing anything illegal. But some people get nervous.

4. Shift the economic liability of identity to the individual, away from the companies storing your personal information.

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