Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
Moderation rules are more lenient for this section, but try and play nicely.
Hey everyone, thank you for contacting us with the problems you are having at the moment with posting comments.
While you may be told your message has been trashed or disallowed or denied, they are in fact all remaining on site.
So please be patient and your comments will turn up.
We are working on the problem and will have a solution soon.
PS -While we are having this discussion about comments, we have always felt moderated comments were a way to go to avoid trolling. The Internet can be a pretty rude place at times so we wanted to try and reduce that.
How would everyone feel about
a) Direct posts to blogs.
b) Moderation after publishing (if we went down this path we would need volunteer moderators).
c) We are going to start clamping down more on personal abuse between commentators and would like to open up thoughts form you the readers about what you would like to see in terms of comments and what the rules should be.
Please leave comments below. Thoughts on what we will do will be published middle of next month.
Cheers TDB Team
‘British surveillance state ‘worse than Orwell’s 1984’ – UN privacy chief’
https://www.rt.com/uk/313367-un-surveillance-orwell-privacy/
“UN Special Rapporteur on Privacy Joseph Cannataci has described Britain’s oversight of surveillance as a “bad joke” and said the situation is worse than anything author George Orwell imagined in his dystopian novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four.”
‘British surveillance state ‘worse than Orwell’s 1984’ – UN privacy chief’
https://www.rt.com/uk/313367-un-surveillance-orwell-privacy/
“UN Special Rapporteur on Privacy Joseph Cannataci has described Britain’s oversight of surveillance as a “bad joke” and said the situation is worse than anything author George Orwell imagined in his dystopian novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four….”
and from sunny Florida..thoughts on fraud from a New Yorker , Greece…and what the Greek government should have done, Germany rises, banksters and housing rip offs
https://www.rt.com/shows/keiser-report/313322-episode-max-keiser-801/
“In this special episode of the Keiser Report from Miami, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert ask Reggie Middleton whether Miami really is the fraud capital of America. In the second half, Max continues his interview with Steve Dibert of MFI-Miami.com about mojitos, fraud arbitrage and whatever happened to Mers.”
Regarding point c), I’m into robust debate, and I like most facets of the wild west of The Internet.
I think as long as comments don’t involve threats of violence/intimidation or blatantly racist/homophobic/patriarchal abuse, Slater-esque publication of personal details/addresses, etc. then the heat is otherwise simply a gladdening sign that someone somewhere still cares enough about something to be angry – welcome enough in these passionless times.
Maybe we can ‘cut and paste’ some actual news stories on to the Herald website – or perhaps suggest they merge with The New Zealand Woman’s Weekly.
Ha ha – love it Kim Dandy 🙂 Seriously though you could have a point.
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