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Because of a crush of web traffic to my site, I've fallen way behind in monitoring and approving thousands of comments on different postings. Please accept my sincere apology. I'll try to remedy the situation today and over the weekend.
ADVISORY: Catching Up On Comments
By Nikki Finke | Category: DH update | Friday January 4, 2008 @ 9:14am PST
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Why do you monitor and approve comments? How Draconian. I’ve noticed you very rarely post any comments that are critical of you and your supposed impartiality. Your website is a very well reported invaluable resource, but you shouldn’t suggest that you don’t have a biased perspective.
I don’t know, E, maybe she monitors comments because:
1) it’s her site and she can do what she wants.
2) to get rid of ads that often sneak their way into comment posts.
3) to keep the content appropriate, you know, so people don’t post stuff like “hey E, your genitals smell like rotten eggs and dog vomit”.
Just a thought.
She certainly doesn’t seem to be biased as far as which comments she lets through. Most professional blogs monitor their comments to control spam, petty insults, etc. Go look at the comments section for any popular Youtube video to see what happens when the comments aren’t moderated.
It must take a lot of time to screen out all of the anti-writer, pro-producer comments that come in.
Your slanted, biased, “let’s support the creative, intelligent people, and oppose the money-hungry oligarchy that controls mass expression even though they can’t write their way out of a paper bag” attitude is soooo nauseating.
You must be flooded with pro-AMPTP comments and comments that criticize you, for after all, people who leave comments on a blog such as this would only do so to poke holes in your reputation and expose you for the rational populist you are.
Obviously, since you actually spend time working on your website, you must be hiding things from us that expose you as… as…
Give a girl a break. Maybe you don’t see a lot of critical comments on this site because there isn’t a lot of criticism?
You should set up a forum. Many benefits to you as the webmaster, many benefits to the people commenting and contributing to have a way to follow a thread easier. I wonder what others think of this idea. If you need help, let me know.
E:
Maybe she approves comments in order to avoid spam, profanity, illiteracy, and any number of other types of clutter.
I agree with the first commenter about your Draconion selection of approved comments. I’ve disagreed with you before, but kept my tone civil. Because of this, I’ve turned to United Hollywood for my news source. But you had me there, at least for awhile.
As for your reporting, you have lost your edge. You appear to be stooping to tabloidism and that is very disappointing.
My advice: correct yourself. Take the tough criticism along with the kudos and Media Mensch awards. You’re a big girl and your job is to serve your readers in delivering news and information and not play to your ego. You’ve done solid work in the past and that’s what I used to like about you.
*CRACKS THE WHIP* Work, Nikki, work slave!
Give Nikki a break — she is not completely impartial but she does a pretty good job. I have taken issue with her impartiality before and she has been courteous in her responses. And she has to approve the comments because I’m sure (especially in the strike talkbacks) there are a lot of comments that cross the line — a lot of heated emotions from people on both sides.
>> Why do you monitor and approve comments? How Draconian. Comment by E — January 4, 2008 @ 9:41 am
As a guess to prevent spam postings, flaming in response to comments, and to weed out the general abuse and direct, personal (and often near-illiterate) insults that populate the comment threads that anonymous posters put up in other blogs?
>> I’ve noticed you very rarely post any comments that are critical of you and your supposed impartiality.
Hmm – you haven’t been reading the same comment threads I have then. I’ve seen plenty of vitriolic criticisms of Nikki’s work. And she put up your critical comment didn’t she?
Of course it could be possible that most commentators think Nikki does a good job, and that’s why there are few critical posts.
E: “I’ve noticed you very rarely post any comments that are critical of you and your supposed impartiality.”
Quite honestly, I don’t think that’s true, nor do I think it’s particularly “Draconian.”
Monitoring and approving comments is kinda Basic Blog 101 at this point – you have to sort out the puerile and the merely flamey from the controversial-but-intelligent-and-worthwhile.
Otherwise you get… well, imdb, for instance… Blerg and feh to that.
It’s Nikki’s site. Not anyone else’s. She gets to make the rules. You want open forums go to huffpost etc….
And i think the fact that she posted your comment so critical of her shows you how wrong you are too.
That’s okay Nikki, I forgive you.
By the way, I always go to your site first for the latest WGA strike News.
Let’s settle soon, please!
Hey Nikki! wanna share a bottle and a hot tub sometime?
PC
Yes, please start posting the critical comments as well. I’ve written a few and they have all been considered and mature, and almost all of them have not been posted. There’s no reason to censor criticism, especially when your readers have taken the time to write. I enjoy reading the site, but when I take the time to respond to something you’ve written, all I ask is that it be posted in the discussion. I don’t expect or need a personal response. That’s not too much to ask (I hope).
It’s her website and she’ll monitor if she wants to!
Gee, if this is the kind of comment that gets approved, I’d hate to see the ones that don’t get posted!
sometimes think I have been too mean and then I’ll notice that you’ll put mean as shit comments full of curses and personal attacks. How come some attacks are Ok and some complaining ok and some is not. Let it rain baby and Someone Burn this traitor Ridley and trhrow him out of the guild
Nikki, big time-saver for you: just let the comments section go and stop wasting your time monitoring and approving. I’d like to think the readers here are civilized enough to refrain from swearing and saying things that shouldn’t be said. Right, guys?
If after a while it all goes to hell, just shut the comments down. The whole approving and censoring thing doesn’t suit you.
I agree with “E”, Nikki.
You shouldn’t bother “screening” comments. Just accept the fact that their are different opinions out there from yours and go with it.
Thanks for all the hard work you do, Nikki!
If you didn’t moderate the comments, this place would be overrun with studio thugs and goons (and their cufflinks, cocktails, and whores) and we wouldn’t be able to have an intelligent discussion. Thanks again for keeping us informed!!!!
I think the comments are a bad thing anyway. The site has become a free-for-all for trolls. I wish it would return to its roots and not be a pipeline for misinformation and hysteria.
“Why do you monitor and approve comments? How Draconian.”
Dear E: no, it’s not Draconian, it’s called covering your ass legally. Internet sites are legally responsible for any defamation actions that may arise from their content – that includes comments on their site. Unless you;re offering to put up the money should Deadline Hollywood Daily get its ass sued. Thought not.
Nikki, have you thought about enlisting some help from LA Weekly or other people you know, trust, and happen to have free time to help moderate comments? With the focus on the strike (and your excellent coverage on it, by the way), you’ve got a literal world of traffic; maybe it’s time for some reinforcements?
E-you obviously don’t read this site often. There are plenty of comments critical of Nikki. One post I can remember in particular was on Christmas Eve when the AMPTP hinted possible strike resolution and more than a few commenters, myself included, suggested Nikki had been played by AMPTP flacks. There have also been posts about possible resolutions the DGA and Katzenberg were posited as the supposed answers to the strike and the same objections were posed. So please leave this woman alone. She’s done yeoman work and more than anyone in getting out the straight dope in what’s going on.
Actually, Lynden, that’s not true. The courts have ruled that content providers are not responsible for material posted by the users. This was in place to protect ISPs like AOL from getting sued by what their users posted — but it has been expanded to include blogs and the like (YouTube, etc.)
I believe Nikki said that one of the reasons for monitoring the posts was to avoid the unsubstantiated calling out of individuals as potential scabs. I rarely see my comments posted, and I don’t think it’s personal – namely because most of my comments are in praise of Nikki, but don’t necessarily bring anything to the discussion.
And Nikki, you still rock!
As someone who happens to have a blog also, I completely understand about the need to moderate comments. It isn’t about keeping opposing views out of the comments. A good blogger will welcome other viewpoints and the comments on Nikki’s blog show that she welcomes all viewpoints. But it is about keeping spammers from posting their garbage. I know that if I didn’t moderate comments, my blog would be overrun with spam. It’s an absolute necessity these days.
Anyone who hasn’t tried to maintain a quality blog shouldn’t call actual, professional bloggers out for monitoring comments. Even people with personal Xangas get spammed and flamed upon occasion.
Internet users aren’t always going to follow the rules of common courtesy, and sometimes it’s up to site moderators to ensure they do.
E, Q, Intrigued, TV Editor, Moderatewriter, BTLGuy etc:
Obviously Nikki monitors the comments so you professional posters from Fabrication and Liar-hane don’t fill Each comment section with your crap.
A WGA Supporter
“Monitoring and approving comments is kinda Basic Blog 101 at this point – you have to sort out the puerile and the merely flamey from the controversial-but-intelligent-and-worthwhile.”
Well, as evidenced by some of the responses just on this topic, many of the people that agree are just as immature and inflammatory in their responses as the people who disagree. That’s quite the double standard. People can flame others like 15-year olds, so long as it’s the people the articles are against that are being flamed.
As an example…
“E, Q, Intrigued, TV Editor, Moderatewriter, BTLGuy etc:
Obviously Nikki monitors the comments so you professional posters from Fabrication and Liar-hane don’t fill Each comment section with your crap.
A WGA Supporter”