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Editor at Monday, 6 July 2009
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Since last week, this blog has become a target of spammers. Long comments that force people to scroll down, insults, commenting under nick-names of other readers, taking controversial stands to trigger discussions, etcetera.
It seems that people setting up another Barcelona news project are putting more negative energy in damaging the "competition" than positive energy in building their own quality site, and deliberately want to harm this blog by heating up or slowing down the discussions in the comments sections, hoping that people will stay away. This has forced me to introduce the system of moderating the comments.
During European day-time, not much will change, there will most of the time only be a small delay of a couple of minutes. During European night-time, that delay could be a little to a lot longer, but we'll see what we can do about that. Since there are anyway no posts and so less traffic and comments during that time, this shouldn't be too much of a problem.
Several people had commented me before that they were unhappy with the quality of the comments on the blog. I didn't yet have time to look into that but a pleasant side-effect from the moderating seems to be that most of the shouters and the people who are looking for instant satisfaction are going to other places to do their thing. As Johan Cruijff said: "Every disadvantage has its advantge."
My apologies for the inconveniences and thanks for your understanding!
It seems that people setting up another Barcelona news project are putting more negative energy in damaging the "competition" than positive energy in building their own quality site, and deliberately want to harm this blog by heating up or slowing down the discussions in the comments sections, hoping that people will stay away. This has forced me to introduce the system of moderating the comments.
During European day-time, not much will change, there will most of the time only be a small delay of a couple of minutes. During European night-time, that delay could be a little to a lot longer, but we'll see what we can do about that. Since there are anyway no posts and so less traffic and comments during that time, this shouldn't be too much of a problem.
Several people had commented me before that they were unhappy with the quality of the comments on the blog. I didn't yet have time to look into that but a pleasant side-effect from the moderating seems to be that most of the shouters and the people who are looking for instant satisfaction are going to other places to do their thing. As Johan Cruijff said: "Every disadvantage has its advantge."
My apologies for the inconveniences and thanks for your understanding!