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Monday 1 July 2013
Pinch and punch it’s the first of the month
8 comments:
Comments, since I started writing this blog in 2007 the way the internet works has changed a lot, comments and dialogue here were once viable in an open and anonymous sense. Now if you comment here I will only allow the comment if it seems to make sense and be related to what the post is about. I link the majority of my posts to the main local Facebook groups and to my Facebook account, “Michael Child” I guess the main Ramsgate Facebook group is We Love Ramsgate. For the most part the comments and dialogue related to the posts here goes on there. As for the rest of it, well this blog handles images better than Facebook, which is why I don’t post directly to my Facebook account, although if I take a lot of photos I am so lazy that I paste them directly from my camera card to my bookshop website and put a link on this blog.
Michael, your comment on blogging is very accurate for, over the years I have followed the Thanet blogs, the standard of comment and debate has declined noticeably.
ReplyDeleteWhereas once there were some lengthy exchanges of views, often contradictory but reasoned nonetheless, now the trading of insults and moronic repetition seems to have driven many away.
There is, of course, he of the aquifer and sundry pollution, who, regardless of the thread, leaps up every time with his monotonous remarks, insults and dismissal of all others, particularly councillors. Hardly makes for decent debate. Add the spammers and the general mix is down on where it once was.
Despite the problems, I still think it is worth persevering, if you have the time, and there are still occasions when something worthwhile gets discussed.
Don't forget the JH twins who are responsible for most of the gratuitous insults and abuse.
ReplyDeleteAnonymouth 7:16 pm,
ReplyDeleteAnd we must not forget you - the resident idiot.
dont feed the troll clip clop
ReplyDeleteSadly tge quality of posts has declined markedly, with unsupportabe bs, and inuenda dishonestly being presented as fact, without tge benefit of proof of course, a trend that seems to have been championed by mr James.
ReplyDeleteCouple that with those without the balls to post as themselves, and oost from anonomous accoubts, and the reason the blogs quality is in the toilet becomes clear.
If everyone was a bit nicer to each other then perhaps people would feel more comfortable posting under their own identity.
Deleteanon if only
Deleteclip clop
Sadly if so many didn't post unsupportable BS, they wouldn't have to be treated so harshly Anon.
ReplyDeleteOf you trot James my boy.