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Stuff censoring comments?

Postby aardvark_admin » Mon Jun 22, 2015 6:43 pm

A very interesting observation...

I was monitoring the comments left on Stuff's website in respect to this story:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/gadge ... n-pub.html

Earlier today there were some 45 comments on that story (including some of my own). Strangely enough -- mid-afternoon -- all the comments disappeared.

WTF?

Was it because of the nature of some of the comments (which were getting very interesting) -- or is it just a case of Occam's Razor and someone STUFFed-up big-time by accidentally nuking all of them?
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Re: Stuff censoring comments?

Postby Screw » Tue Jun 23, 2015 9:21 am

Noticed this with Stuff before. When comments get controversial they go "Poof".
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Re: Stuff censoring comments?

Postby phill » Tue Jun 23, 2015 11:29 am

i see rnz has started a comments section on their articles

did stuff not stop there's for awhile ..
thats when i stopped going there
( ,,,,,,,, ....... A E I O U use em sparingly theres probably not enough )

i might live and eat in a sewer .. but hey look how many of these shiny things i have got
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Re: Stuff censoring comments?

Postby paulw » Thu Jun 25, 2015 4:44 pm

There are currently 48 comments on this article and some from Aardvark. Maybe they heard you :-)
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Re: Stuff censoring comments?

Postby aardvark_admin » Thu Jun 25, 2015 6:04 pm

No, all my original comments (and the other 40 or so that were there) have vanished into a black hole. These are comments made since that "disappearance". :-(
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