On the sickness of our community

Posted Oct 21, 2014 13:23 UTC (Tue) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198)
In reply to: On the sickness of our community by Cyberax
Parent article: On the sickness of our community

I don't think the posts he was removing actually contained the string "fart fart fart", they contained BS and he replaced it with "fart fart fart" as a value judgement about the quality of the post, which is a bit taunting and provocative to the people who have been moderated.

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On the sickness of our community

Posted Oct 21, 2014 13:25 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (2 responses)

I was actually reading the blog post in question when there was only one 'fart-fart-fart' comment. So I kinda doubt it.

On the sickness of our community

Posted Oct 21, 2014 17:46 UTC (Tue) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link] (1 responses)

There is this one comment which stands

http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/32778.html?thread=1206538#cmt...

but many like

http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/32778.html?thread=1314314#cmt...

> Original comment read:
> "Fart fart fart fart"
> and as such has been screened for irrelevance.

Is it your contention that each of these original comments _actually_ said fart, maybe that is true, I presumed that they said something bilious and nasty and mjg59 just replaced them with fart to keep the discussion from being derailed and to highlight the irrelevancy of the hateful comments. Which I think is his right, it's his site and his hosting.

On the sickness of our community

Posted Oct 21, 2014 18:02 UTC (Tue) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]

Several of them weren't bilious or nasty, and there are several comments that *were* bilious or nasty that I left there. The ones that were removed simply contained arguments that were so fundamentally wrong and incompatible with observed facts that merely removing them would have been insufficient in demonstrating my disdain.