Irish Independant Shutting down Comments

skippy2

Has anyone noticed a trend for the online Irish Indo version to shut down and delete comments on certain pages if they take a certain slant ie: Negative - I do not mean abusive or anything nasty, just disagreeing with certain things.
All of a sudden the comments section for the article gets closed down and no comments are available. I know i have commented on a couple of articles after other comments and return later to find the article is still there but the comments section for this article has been closed and all comments pulled.
Nothing like a bit of self regulation by the Irish Indo -

Loafing Oaf

skippy2 wrote: »

Has anyone noticed a trend for the online Irish Indo version to shut down and delete comments on certain pages if they take a certain slant ie: Negative - I do not mean abusive or anything nasty, just disagreeing with certain things.
All of a sudden the comments section for the article gets closed down and no comments are available. I know i have commented on a couple of articles after other comments and return later to find the article is still there but the comments section for this article has been closed and all comments pulled.
Nothing like a bit of self regulation by the Irish Indo -

Not a regular on the Indo site but noticed that a David Quinn article about obstetricians and abortion had no comments attached the other day: I wonder is it the lawyers that are causing them to pull the comments for certain articles...

IRE60

It has to be a nightmare to try and marshall comments - you'd need a fleet of people (trained people) to look after that.
I think that in article on obstetricians and abortion, which at this point is emotive and highly charged, its better to just not allow comments rather than run the risk of a court case.
They certainly are not the only news organisation to can suspect comments.

Loafing Oaf

IRE60 wrote: »

It has to be a nightmare to try and marshall comments - you'd need a fleet of people (trained people) to look after that.
I think that in article on obstetricians and abortion, which at this point is emotive and highly charged, its better to just not allow comments rather than run the risk of a court case.
They certainly are not the only news organisation to can suspect comments.

Indeed, the Guardian does it regularly about stuff like phone hacking. But it does make you wonder about how social media gets away with such a free for all.

Rasmus

skippy2 wrote: »

Has anyone noticed a trend for the online Irish Indo version to shut down and delete comments on certain pages if they take a certain slant ie: Negative - I do not mean abusive or anything nasty, just disagreeing with certain things.
All of a sudden the comments section for the article gets closed down and no comments are available. I know i have commented on a couple of articles after other comments and return later to find the article is still there but the comments section for this article has been closed and all comments pulled.
Nothing like a bit of self regulation by the Irish Indo -

Yes this happens ALL the time on the Indo, while less so other websites, at least so I have noticed.
Many times I have commented on articles and the comment doesn't appear - the times when I may have disagreed or questioned the author's perspective or the Indo's angle.
They love comments that lament accidents, heap praise and are chatty.
Then sometimes they hardly regulate at all. I guess it depends on the 'moderator'.

IRE60

Rasmus wrote: »

Yes this happens ALL the time on the Indo, while less so other websites, at least so I have noticed.
Many times I have commented on articles and the comment doesn't appear - the times when I may have disagreed or questioned the author's perspective or the Indo's angle.
They love comments that lament accidents, heap praise and are chatty.
Then sometimes they hardly regulate at all. I guess it depends on the 'moderator'.

Interesting! Maybe the DO'B edict to his radio stations - end on good news - stretches to the indo site too!

Dzoni

The Guardian keeps on-going court cases without comments, and things like that, for legal reasons, but is usually open to criticism and opinions it wouldn't agree with. Whereas the Indo is more sinister, they dont allow comments that disagree with them and/ criticize the journalist or paper. Shameful!
Ive noticed that they often attack people for political reasons (they have Ming Flanagan in their sights, for example) and if a particular target is late paying his phone bill, for example, it will be blown up into a headline story.
It's not a place to get unbiased news.

hmmm

Most comments on online news sites are from the usual set of cranks and loudmouths. It'd be no loss if they were lost, and the pageviews foregone from these cranks repeatedly reloading is no loss either.

jmcc

hmmm wrote: »

Most comments on online news sites are from the usual set of cranks and loudmouths.

I think that they are called columnists now.

Regards...jmcc

Sharknose

Now that the Independent has closed all comments on their website, where have all the commentators gone ?

Where is there a place to voice comment on the Independent news items, some of which are particularly incorrect, vexatious, or just trivial ?

They state their reason is to avoid litigation, but to my mind it is to silence all opposition and different viewpoints to their PC driven agenda.

They remind me of the priests in the pulpits of my youth. They speak rubbish,
but are answered by silence :mad:

Tayschren

Reading trash like the independent and then complaining that you've no forum to complain about it is hilarious, independent readers in a nutshell.

I would put the sun and independent readers in the same category of modern windbags

Pauliedragon

I prefer reading the comments than the article in half the news sites these days.