Commenting Policy

Posted on 16 December 2011 by dialogueireland

Moderation Announcement

Until now Dialogue Ireland has taken a very ‘hands-off’ approach to moderating the comments sections of our blog. Like any idealistic policy this approach has suffered some setbacks: specifically the presence of personal attacks and off-topic postings, particularly in the threads concerning Buddhism (over 2,000 comments and counting).

With this in mind Dialogue Ireland will be implementing the following for the Buddhism threads:

1) All personal attacks will be removed. No ifs, ands or buts. It is not clever and it is not conducive to meaningful discussion.

2) Any material not strongly connected to the post being commented upon will be removed.

Dialogue Ireland will be opening up a discussion forum in the very near future. Forums, by their very nature, make it very easy to facilitate off-topic discussions and the moderation thereof. When we launch this forum it will be possible for all posters to open threads where they can discuss material that is not strongly connected to the material posted on our blog. Unfortunately, our Blog software does not have the capability to offer these features at present and we feel that it is important to try keeping the blog commenting sections as ‘on-topic’ as possible.

We hope that all posters will understand the spirit in which we are implementing these changes, and we hope you will persevere with these minor restrictions us until we have our forum up and running.

Thank you.

End Moderation Announcement

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2 Responses

  1. themadhair, on 21 December 2011 at 9:01 am said:

    Sheila, on December 21, 2011 at 2:06 am said:

    DI, your new moderation policy, posted December 16, 2011, stated: “All personal attacks will be removed. No ifs, ands or buts. It is not clever and it is not conducive to meaningful discussion.

    Since December 16, 2011, other people here have posted:

    1. “any research [Sheila] does now or in the future is irrelevant”

    2. off-topic posts from other websites made by people other than myself, but attributed falsely to me

    3. “you are an enemy of Tibetm=, the Dalai Lama and the Dharma”

    4. “Were you born or raised in China or Chinese territories Sheila? Were you raised in the Catholic faith? Dont Chinese have a reputation for zealotry?”

    5. “So the fact that you were able to read the Chinese blog MF in Chinese script is just coincidence-Yeah sure”

    6. “THE GAMES UP SISTER”

    7. “Were you raised a Christian by missionaries? have you renounced your faith?”

    8. “you were raised by Christian mssionaries (deny it)”

    9. “LOL=Lots of Lies”

    10. “Your post and your perspective are irrelevant”

    11. “I agree-bella is a a waste of time because of her TBS, Sheila for her NPD (Narcissistic personality disorder”

    12. “Sheila Shigley is an unattractive unmarried 44-year-old Irish party girl”

    13. “WHY CANT YOU KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT”

    14. “Rein this egotistic manipulating motor mouth in; she does the devils work”

    15. “are you what I suspect you are (as well as a liar?)”

    16. “instead of talking s***, shut your mouth.”

    Why did you not remove these personal attacks?

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  2. Melong, on 16 December 2011 at 12:26 pm said:

    Normally I would consider this a draconian measure but having seen the vitriolic and irrelevant nonsense on the threads mentioned, posts which appear not to be to do with cultism but with a concerted campaign to attack Tibetan Buddhism and its proponents without proper justification, I fully agree with this decision..

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