Deleting comments.
Have you guys been to Bolehland.com?
Anyway, I moderate that site and I delete stupid comments which we get everyday. So what’s the beef if I delete comments? I’m finding it hard these days to engage in a quality debate without it spiralling downwards into this spew of personal attacks and seditious statements. So to save my time and my sanity, I delete them.
Of course I don’t randomly delete stuff over there, this bloke who gets on my nerves has a tendency to just advertise his own site with a link to his forum which generates income by diverting our traffic to his. Now I don’t see any money going into my pocket. And not only that, my intelligence is getting insulting from senseless decries that ‘Malaysia is a stupid country’ and ‘here’s how I make money by calling myself a Datuk in cyberspace because I’m actually far too retarded to engage in a logical discussion’.
Seriously. If you hate the country, fine. I don’t really care. My only pet peeve is those who bitch and do nothing about it. And worse, those who have the nerve to condemn those working and trying hard to fix the problem. Sure people take different approaches but I can’t stomach spineless, apathetic condemnation. Above all, I can’t stand people using provocative statements at my site to fish for visitors in order to generate income at theirs. It’s crappy marketing. Usually I won’t give any shit about sites who indulge in rubbish but please don’t use the sites I manage to feed that nonsense.
I’m not hesitant about deleting really mind-numbing comments. Most times, I just leave them in moderation to keep proof of IP address, time and nicknames. So if you plan to lambast me, sure go ahead but if you’re gonna come to my blog and scold my mother, I’m going to play a different ball-game. You will be traced and I won’t let up so easily.
Don’t give me shit about freedom of speech cos I damn well have the ultimate power and freedom over here in my own blog to delete your vitriol. Freedom vs freedom - now that is true democracy! I know we have plenty of stupid people in the world, I simply don’t have the time to engage them.
Come back with some brains, common sense and decent manners, then we’ll talk.