I went out of town for a few days and was surprised to come back and find that the blog has caught some comment trolling sniffles. You guys are usually very good, so what happened?
Anyways, it's time for a little housecleaning.
If you find your off-topic comments about McCain/Palin or Obama/Biden gone, then they've either been deleted by me or by the post authors. I'm generally against censorship, so I tried to preserve some of the comments that seem to have genuine point of views. Silly ones, those with name-callings, or those impersonating famous persons have been nuked. Let's hope we won't have to do this again.
Just to get it out of your system, here's the one post that you can have at it.
Thanks for notifying me, I have now just removed that link from my name.
However, it's obvious that political passions on all sides are running high as the election approaches. Perhaps it might be useful to create an appropriate topic for discussion every now and then -- or perhaps not. It depends on what you want your blog to be.
I just didn't agree with Siteseer's definition of censor, as if "censoring" were always a bad thing.
Lets keep this place clean folks! :)
@ted - very, very few comments on Neatorama are censored. A bulk of those that do get quashed are silly comments like gibberish characters or "first first first" type comments.
We used to run a "politeness" filter that quashes vulgar words but that was an exercise in futility. It turned out not to be necessary either. Not a lot of comments are nuked solely because of vulgarity.
I'm hoping that the recent trolling activities will cease - but who knows. It is the Internet, and it is election season.
@PK - thanks! I hope Neatorama continues to be a friendly place to hang out online.