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(66 votes) 2:19 pm
July 8, 2010
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I tried to comment on the poorly researched article and the examiner flagged my comment as spam. Anyone else try?
2:23 pm
August 27, 2010
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If you are flagged as SPAM, try changing the Anonymous to another name.
3:01 pm
May 19, 2010
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venicerez said:
I tried to comment on the poorly researched article and the examiner flagged my comment as spam. Anyone else try?
Yeah, I'm the one who called it "shallow, stupid and completely uninformed."
3:15 pm
June 20, 2007
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Looks like they are deleting the comments …
Contact Us: Please get in touch with us via phone or post, or use the contact form below.
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Email: contactus@examiner.com
3:18 pm
August 27, 2010
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Nice. My comment got posted for about 20 minutes before it went down.
3:31 pm
June 17, 2009
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You can also report the article using the handy dandy "Report" button. I chose the "incorrect information" option on the scroll bar of choices for my note. =^.^=
3:34 pm
May 19, 2010
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Bret said:
Looks like they are deleting the comments …
They deleted my comment too, so I figured "f*ck em, I'll do it again." My 2nd comment was tagged as spam, but then…the site actually asked me to take a survey about the content of Examiner. So I did. My moderately negative comment was nothing compared to how I just completely reamed them on the survey.
10:51 pm
June 17, 2009
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Proud to be a plain belly sneetch and I still don't want people dumping sewage in my street.
7:32 am
March 23, 2010
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Examiner is a website anybody can sign up to the a "reporter" for. I did it briefly myself before deciding it was a waste of time.
There is virtually no editorial control and each "examiner" gets to moderate their own comments.
I could ask to be the "Los Angeles RV dweller examiner" and they'd give me a forum.
10:35 am
June 20, 2007
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MichaelInVenice said:
There is virtually no editorial control and each "examiner" gets to moderate their own comments.
> From: mailto:bret@yovenice.com
>
> In regard to that article, who has been deleting user comments that are critical of what you have written .. you or someone else? Seems like there are some readers of my site that strongly disagree with what you have written, but have had their comments deleted.
>
> If you did not delete the comments, I will be asking your editors why comments were deleted. If you could let me know their contact information that will save me a quick search.
>
> Best,
>
> Bret
> http://www.YoVenice.com
REPLY:
On Jan 12, 2011, at 1:43 AM, KIM WILLIAMS wrote:
The comments were removed because they were sent anonymously. I am having IT research to see if they are from multiple commentators or from one individual poster, such as yourself. Which was possible since the comments seemed to be written by the same individual.
Kim Williams
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It is an official option of your site to post as "anonymous", so your "were removed because they were sent anonymously" makes no sense, Kim.
It sounds to me from what you have written (your having knowledge of why they were removed) and the fact that the comments were published and then taken down, that you were in fact directly responsible for taking these comments down. Am I correct?
Your IT person will show they were from multiple people, as there were existing comments before I put my comment .. which means multiple people.
Now .. sounds to me like you deleted these comments because you did not like the criticism … and in doing so, made it where those that are criticial of your article would not have their voices heard … whitewashing your own reporting.
You have not provided me with your editors email addresses, I suppose I will have to get them myself to ask them about why you have done this.
Please feel free to correct me if you were not in fact the individual responsible for deleting comments critical of your reporting.
Do you live in Venice, or ?
Bret
10:48 am
February 12, 2010
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Classic.
11:15 am
May 19, 2010
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Bret said:
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It is an official option of your site to post as "anonymous", so your "were removed because they were sent anonymously" makes no sense, Kim.
Awesome!
Just for the record, for my first deleted comment, I did sign up with a username. It was "Venice Guy". (Hell, I didn't say it was a good user name.) After my two comments were deleted, I sent Kim a third comment, asking "Why do you delete all negative comments?" This comment was immediately deleted.
