Could be. Regarding Robyn Ringler’s anti-gun rights blog and allegations she’s deleting comments, a reader (who I will identify, if the want) emails:

I think there’s some confusion about the moderation/deletion on her blog.

When you post a comment on her blog, you see it immediately posted, but it’s not really through moderation, you can only see it because you’ve posted it, nobody else can see it.

I’ll post a comment at work and see the comment appear on the entry, but when I check the same entry on my computer when I get home, it’s not visible—at least not until she allows it through moderation, at which point it’s viewable from anywhere. On the other hand, if she doesn’t allow it through moderation, it will no longer be visible on either computer.

It’s the same way on LiveJournal—when you screen comments by default, the person who posted a comment will see their comment posted when they view the thread, but it’s not publicly viewable until I unscreen it. If they log out of LJ or view it from another computer, their comment will appear to have been deleted.

So I don’t think your comments are being deleted, they are simply never allowed through moderation in the first place (it just appears that way). Not that there’s much of a difference between deleting a comment and never allowing it to be seen by everyone—it’s still censoring content and of course the end result is the same.

On a side note, have you noticed that her entries seem to contain much less PSH than they did a month or two ago? Either we’re making an impact on her mindset, or she’s realizing that she can’t continue to make ridiculous arguments without having her ass handed to her. I’d like to think it’s a little bit of both, but either way, we win 🙂

Could be.

Posted in uncategorized on August 23rd, 2007 by SayUncle | RSS 2.0 |