Is there corruption at the Mail online forums?

Why because i've tried posting about my fears on Oil (like on this site) and i've also triede posting replies too some other threads, but all I get is "Your posts are in a moderated que" one which it claims should take around 1 hour and i've been waiting around 5 days. Also when you read their posts and threads they sound too good, you know as if journalists have written them and not you and me.

I ask whats the point of having a forum if your not going to let people have their say?

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Originally posted by wayne72
I ask whats the point of having a forum if your not going to let people have their say?


You could draw all sorts of comparisons with the SF after that comment ;)

No Forum is totally 'public access'. Even ones that purport to be unmoderated will still occasionally exhibit soem form of editorial control.

The BBC's comments page is the same - they moderate stuff posted to comment on news stories, and if your views have either been put before or don't fit, then they don't get posted.

Not necessarily 'corruption', just applying the same editorial standards to their online world as they do in their newspaper. Try taking a look at the Mail's letters page sometimes....it's scary.

Have you tried the equivalent place sor the Guardian, Independent, etc. ?

Joe

No I have'nt tried them yet, but I will now.

Cheers Joe

Originally posted by JoeP
Try taking a look at the Mail's letters page sometimes....it's scary.

Have you tried the equivalent place sor the Guardian, Independent, etc. ?

Joe

Reading The Daily Sensationalist is what annoyed me about far right-wing politics, with their ridiculous out-of-proportion statistics - "Scientisits believe..." (insert something silly).

That, and that their readership are mainly middle-aged women that need advice on their menopause - so I went for something mellower - Independent/Guardian - found those too PC, switched back to semi-right wing with the Times/DT!

The DT and The TT have the same news as The Mail minus the bordering-on-the-racist views, and old fashioned "bloody gays", "bloody blacks" tripe that the Mail continues to produce!

The Guardian's equivalent (http://www.guardian.co.uk/index/talk/0,3109,,00.html)
Telegraph's 'Opinion' Section (http://www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?menuId=1587&menuItemId=-1&view=SUMMARY&grid=P8&targetRule=0)
The Indpendent's 'Comment' Section (http://comment.independent.co.uk/)

And The Times' has vanished off the planet...

They're the only papers you need to bother with, IMO.