It seems that over at the semi-official Connexions site things are beginning to fall apart. Long gone are the days when the Reverends Richard Hall and Kim Fabricius could post their anti-Israel, anti-Palestine views unchallenged and simply insult anyone who disagrees with them. A number of experienced and knowledgeable bloggers are obviously tracking their posts
Selected contributors to Connexions are now barred, comments are censored, and discussions - the length of which were until recently a source of earthly pride - are now routinely curtailed once Richard and Kim realise that they have lost the argument.
On this blog I don't go out of my way to solicit comments. My main purpose in blogging is to express my own views, not run a debating society. Readers are welcome to comment and often provide valuable insights. I realise that I'm legally responsible as the publisher so I do take down anything which I think crosses the line.
Following a recent post I got a spate of unacceptable and unpublishable comments. At the same time I am working behind an eccentric firewall and am unable to "moderate", or sometimes even see, comments posted during the day or overnight. In any case anything to do with blogging or the church is only possible during lunch breaks.
So comment moderation is ON Sunday night to Thursday evening. That means contributed comments will not appear until I explicitly decide to publish them. During the weekends I am able to check posts once every three or four hours so moderation is OFF. Any contributions to posts more than a fortnight old are also subject to moderation as these are usually spam messages.![]()
Selected contributors to Connexions are now barred, comments are censored, and discussions - the length of which were until recently a source of earthly pride - are now routinely curtailed once Richard and Kim realise that they have lost the argument.
On this blog I don't go out of my way to solicit comments. My main purpose in blogging is to express my own views, not run a debating society. Readers are welcome to comment and often provide valuable insights. I realise that I'm legally responsible as the publisher so I do take down anything which I think crosses the line.
Following a recent post I got a spate of unacceptable and unpublishable comments. At the same time I am working behind an eccentric firewall and am unable to "moderate", or sometimes even see, comments posted during the day or overnight. In any case anything to do with blogging or the church is only possible during lunch breaks.
So comment moderation is ON Sunday night to Thursday evening. That means contributed comments will not appear until I explicitly decide to publish them. During the weekends I am able to check posts once every three or four hours so moderation is OFF. Any contributions to posts more than a fortnight old are also subject to moderation as these are usually spam messages.
