Comments on: Comment Censorship http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/comment-censorship SEO, SEM, Marketing and Technology sprinkled with Sports, Parenting and Rants Sat, 21 May 2016 19:58:50 +0000 hourly 1 By: AJ Kohn http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/comment-censorship#comment-121817 Sun, 12 Apr 2015 15:15:04 +0000 http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/?p=4758#comment-121817 Well SortingHat, I don’t moderate comments everyday. So if you’re impatient it might seem like you’re being censored. Being combative doesn’t help either. In the end this isn’t a democracy and while I’m happy to engage in a debate I also maintain the right to remove comments that don’t move the conversation forward.

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By: SortingHat http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/comment-censorship#comment-121808 Sun, 12 Apr 2015 14:07:10 +0000 http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/?p=4758#comment-121808 Why are all my comments on moderation? For a blog that’s against online censorship you seem to practice it daily!

Remember to be taken seriously practice what you preach!

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By: El ridículo poder de los comentarios en los blogs Altura Interactive Español http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/comment-censorship#comment-113981 Fri, 20 Feb 2015 17:27:12 +0000 http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/?p=4758#comment-113981 […] están frustrados con censurar los comentarios, tanto humanos como algorítmos (es decir los filtros de spam). Pero la respuesta no es a eliminar […]

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By: Sarah http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/comment-censorship#comment-18134 Tue, 22 Apr 2014 00:16:59 +0000 http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/?p=4758#comment-18134 You bring up a good point about filtering comments into spam folders based on whether they contain links or not. I’ve currently set up my company’s blog to do just that, and now I’m rethinking it. We also have our commenting set up so every comment has to be approved, but if a certain user has a previously approved comment, they basically get white-listed. That seems to have worked out pretty well so far.
One of the reasons I set comments with links as spam is that a lot of comments that were coming through were completely self-promotional from competing sites.
What are your thoughts on dealing with that kind of comment “spam?” Do you treat it like traditional spam, or do you let it through?
Thanks for this post–it’s definitely got the wheels turning for me.

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By: Marquand Farquart http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/comment-censorship#comment-9898 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 23:04:26 +0000 http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/?p=4758#comment-9898 A lot of good points in your post. I ran into the issue of comment censoring at a well known political site. I found that many of my comments were omitted — either censored by algorithm or a human — who knows?

One of the problems with comment censoring is that there is almost never a explanation of why a comment goes missing? The experience is quite Kafkaesque and unstated. “Your comment has been deleted (or never existed in our system) for reasons that you may not enquirer further about.”

So I created a blog http://censoredcomments.wordpress.com/ where anyone can post censored comments from blogs or news sites. The only requirement is that the comment posters identify the site that censored them. The idea is to create accountability. People should be able to know which sites are the most censored.

What to you think? Is this a good idea?

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By: Cogito Ergo Sum http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/comment-censorship#comment-7976 Wed, 15 Aug 2012 14:14:31 +0000 http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/?p=4758#comment-7976 u mean mental alienation ?

how close are we to having a close social communism net dictate how and what we should be thinking ??

i discourage strongly all the third-party spam “comment” services which hhappily charges fees to discriminate comments (and thus content) based on the views of the author. Likewise web developers should probably learn to build efficient blogging system to allow peoples not in facebook to comment freely without a third-party service acting as a content federation/censoring agent.

Great post, but i disagree that identity should be the solution and recomment tor to post comments anonymously! :)

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By: L E REICH http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/comment-censorship#comment-4345 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 01:05:25 +0000 http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/?p=4758#comment-4345 You needed an example of blocked comments? Try making comments on Yahoo! News that urge people to stop being sheep and start being skeptical, and watch what happens. It gets even worse when you caution people about various institutions whose respect for your privacy and dignity are less than optimal. (Something started by a chap named Zuckerberg comes to mind …)

They won’t even let me give a ‘thumbs up’ (or down). I suppose I committed some unforgivable sins, such as urging that the law should regard injuries and deaths resulting from initiation rituals the same way as those resulting from action by noncollegiate thugs, and daring to disagree with Yahoo!’s official coronation of Jennifer Anniston as The Hottest Woman Ever To Have Lived.

At this rate, I wonder how long it will be before independent thinking is regarded as at least a mental disorder if not a crime.

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By: AJ Kohn http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/comment-censorship#comment-3366 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:08:17 +0000 http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/?p=4758#comment-3366 Jacob,

I’m sorry to hear TechCrunch decided to moderate and delete your comments. At present I don’t know of a project that provides the type of scoring I mention in this post. I think it would be an interesting project and even if it weren’t perfect, the increased attention on the issue might alleviate some of the problems.

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By: Jacob Singh http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/comment-censorship#comment-3344 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:04:50 +0000 http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/?p=4758#comment-3344 I was recently censored by TechCrunch, and I’m really angry about it right now. I put a lot of effort into writing well argued comments. I gave them free content which they have now silently deleted. There are even people in the comment thread who I was arguing with asking me where I’ve gone.

Is there a project which details if site’s censor commenters? If not, I’d love to start one.

Jacob
P.S. Please don’t censor this comment :)

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By: AJ Kohn http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/comment-censorship#comment-3312 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:50:40 +0000 http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/?p=4758#comment-3312 Israel,

Exactly! I wrote this post in part because I was getting frustrated with spending a lot of time crafting comments and then having them disappear. Like you I’ve sometimes pinged the owner of a blog and gotten a comment out of the Bermuda Triangle of Spam but that’s a lot of effort and is simply not repeatable for any length of time.

So you’re right, not only are current comments lost but future comments are also lost because our desire to comment diminishes every time we invest time and effort for nothing. At present it doesn’t seem like there is a comment system that everyone likes. I see a number of problems with a highly-fragmented commenting ecosystem both from a contribution and content perspective.

In short, it feels like there’s still room for some innovation in this area.

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