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24

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Notable comment

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From the Times story on the baptism of a mulsim in Rome.


So an intellectual weakling has changed his favourite brand of superstition for a different one & an old man in a silly hat has poured water over him. Yawn.
Roger Angove, Truro,


I’ll let you in to a little secret – I prefer to read comments and the responses to comments on news articles than the articles themselves most of the time.

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Jan
17

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When to reject on Facebook

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I get a lot of requests, as I’m sure do many others, to go to events, invite friends or join groups on facebook and the groups are the ones where I sometimes have to think twice.

With my day job I write a wide range of articles on everything from surfboard bans to government reform and on to what you would call a cafe converted from a toilet.

Which also in turn covers the range seen on Facebook – most of the time I just accept the invite and forget about it – often I’ve accepted invites from groups on two sides of the same argument.

But as more people, especially those in power, start to join Facebook and set up groups – I’m having to ask whether, as a BBC Journalist, I should accept their friend request or join a ‘topical’ group.

One school of thought is to accept anyone and any request that gets sent – that way I’m not showing one or the other as a favourite – this also means I can still use Facebook as a good information and journalism resource – but stops me being able to use it properly as a ‘friends’ space.

The other thought is that I reject anything I don’t agree with personally and use Facebook as nothing more than my own personal space – after all It’s not a work tool.

Sep
24

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Spam Spam Spam Spam

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Spam for lunch, spam for dinner, spam for tea and spam for pudding.
Spam in my inbox, spam in my outbox, spam in my deleted files and spam on my head.
Spam, spam, spam, spam and more sodding arsing bollocking piece of hairy arse spam!

I’m sick of sodding spam – not only do I get it by e-mail but I also get so much of it through my blog that I’m on the verge of calling it a day – or at the very least disabling comments – which for a blogger is much the same thing.

I already get several hundred spam messages a day on up your ego but Aksimet picks most of them up and I never need see them – but for the last two weeks or so around 100 a day have been seeping through to the normal moderation queue.

This is a pain in the arse – especialy as, until last week, I used to have the e-mail me when a comment is posted box checked. That’s off now so the e-mails have died down but the spam is still there.

It’s got to the point where checking it is a pointless excersize as it all just piles back on again.

I’d just like to apologise to anybody who was trying to post a comment for the first time (if you’ve been approved once your comment will get through fine) as it’s unlikely your comment will ever get posted.

I’m going to have one last go at getting rid of whats there (labelling it as spam) and if it still keeps coming then I’m going to disable comments for a while.

If they still come when I put comments back then I’m going to delete this blog and start again!

I do have a few ideas for blog posts but can’t be bothered as I know it will just trigger more bastard spam.