MyBroadband to change its article comments section

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rpm said:
As the article mentioned, the forum section will remain unchanged. The article comments, through Disqus, is where we started to see the deterioration of discussions.

The forum has a great community with insightful discussions and is a self-regulating system. This, unfortunately, is not the case with the Disqus comments.
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So will you stop disabling comment sections now?
 
What about sarcastic comments? Will a SJW/liberal filter also be applied with the swear word filter.
 
access said:
nah there are some pretty pathetic comments under the articles, the other day i saw a pic of a devil screwing jesus in the ass. wtf for man. some people just post useless insults too.

yes free speech and expression and kak

too much of anything is bad
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Report it. That's what moderation is for. Not deciding on whether comments are worthy, that's censorship.

Sweevo said:
If that’s censorship then bring it on. Alternatively make people post using their real name - confirmed with a LinkedIn or Facebook account. Too many groot bekke out there.
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Like News24? We simply made fake FB accounts.

alt21 said:
I posted the following and it was removed.

Its all about the money now, this is no longer the site that was created many moons ago to expose Telkom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyBroadband

In its later years MyBroadband has been criticised for removing forum posts and banning users that are critical of its major advertisers who have people in management positions that are friends with moderators on the forum. The most recent of these when iBurst was accused of illegally erecting a base station. Accusations have been made of unethical behaviour when using a company also owned by the owner of MyBroadband to report on site statistics for its advertisers. Competitions are regularly held which have been criticised for not adhering to any laws governing promotional lotteries or competitions. MyBroadband has drawn a lot of criticism in recent years for alleged preferential treatment of their biggest advertisers, chief among them being Afrihost. On January 30, 2017 MyBroadband created a special support forum for Afrihost in which the company representatives have moderation rights. Some members felt that this action was tantamount to giving preferential treatment to one of the site's largest sponsors and as a result, it drew some criticism. Even though the stated intention was for it to be a month-long trial to determine whether a dedicated support forum has value for ISPs, as of 2018 Afrihost is still the only ISP to have its own dedicated support forum on the site.

The company has also changed its founding principle of being advertising free. In 2009 it included the incumbent Telkom as an advertiser, which was widely critiqued among the membership and ultimately resulted in 2 competing forums being set up. Shortly before and after this several of the founding members left or were banned from the site which was also widely criticised on other forums and on blogs. It is now described as selling out to the telecoms companies and as a commercial news site that no longer has the interests of South African consumers at heart.
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The irony is this is common knowledge now yet the people who first brought attention to it when most people didn't see the cracks appearing are still banned.
 
Comments section policy: Any attacks on MyBroadband, its journalists, or other readers will result in a ban.
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There seems to be no clear way of knowing what is acceptable and what isn't. At the whim of the moderators.

Please tell me what was wrong with these 2 comments:
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How many posts do we have to make to get onto the trusted list?
 
rpm said:
Our plan is definitely not to delete critical comments. As long as the comments are valuable and insightful, they will be approved. In fact, we welcome these comments.

The problem is mainly with trolls and users who simply come in to make some silly, usually negative, remark. These comments are of no value and harms discussions rather than improve them.
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I don't like the use of the word negative. Who determines what is negative. If you say Telkom is good and I say Telkom is bad, which comment is negative? People have different opinions. People should be encouraged to backup their opinions.
 
Dairyfarmer said:
There seems to be no clear way of knowing what is acceptable and what isn't. At the whim of the moderators.

Please tell me what was wrong with these 2 comments:
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Nothing that I can see. Maybe @rpm can shed some light.

Then again, I think this might be the reason:

Post 1: Not Sure. There are to many numbers for me to calculate and confirm. Lol.

Post 2: Maybe misunderstanding that you were attacking the article.
 
RedViking said:
Nothing that I can see. Maybe @rpm can shed some light.

Then again, I think this might be the reason:

Post 1: Not Sure. There are to many numbers for me to calculate and confirm. Lol.

Post 2: Maybe misunderstanding that you were attacking the article.
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Post 1 - I, funnily enough, got the numbers off MyBB articles from late last year.
Post 2 - The article was justifying the high price of data that the operators charge, citing costs of equipment and so on. But they neglected to take money that they are getting for free.
 
I answered some replies to a post and after an hour they are still pending. But someone with as many posts as me but less than half the up votes that I have get's their post accepted within 30 minutes.
 
Dairyfarmer said:
I answered some replies to a post and after an hour they are still pending. But someone with as many posts as me but less than half the up votes that I have get's their post accepted within 30 minutes.
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Some comments go through after couple of minutes, but some seem to be pending for a long time:

This one has been pending for 2 hours:

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Seems very random on how comments are removed or allowed.

Example:
The big risks that could see DStv lose subscribers
There are a whole load of reasons given under headings. But financial pressure was not included.
KaRBoN85 wrote: "Nice one, Blame Netflix, Blame Piracy.... not the fact that it's R900 for repeats. Consumers are under too much financial pressure to pay that price for TV, of course we will look for cheaper alternatives."

I replied: "Yes that heading is missing. "

My comment was removed.
 
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