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Bng Bng

Lee has a righteous rant against Bng Bng.

This entry was posted on Friday, September 12th, 2008 at 8:06 am and is filed under General. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

4 Responses to “Bng Bng”

  1. ngvrnd Says:
    September 12th, 2008 at 10:02 am

    I suppose this sort of behavior (dsmvwlng) might come back to bite them; but then, it would probably only do that if BngBng actually mattered…

  2. mattymatt Says:
    September 12th, 2008 at 1:35 pm

    The moderation over there is definitely the site’s worst feature; it’s capricious and unpredictable. Like you, I’ve been disemvoweled simply because I politely said something that someone disagreed with.

    I also wonder how far this moderation goes; prior to my disemvoweling, they’d published one or two links that I’d submitted; after it, they haven’t published any of my submissions. Am I being paranoid, or do disemvowelees get put on a black list somewhere? That would be consistent with how personally they seem to take any criticism.

  3. JP Says:
    September 12th, 2008 at 5:30 pm

    I’ve removed boingboing from my RSS reader because of the moderation policies. Both the disemvoweling and the recent memory-hole incident with Violet Blue strike me as capricious.

    They spend a lot of time arguing that they have the “right” do edit however they want; I agree totally, but they also need to understand that their add-clicking readers are interested in a balanced, public discussion.

    I’m not interested in reading people’s petty rivalries and self-congratulation. At least not on a blog that’s supposed to be “a directory of wonderful things.”

  4. Lee Says:
    September 13th, 2008 at 12:06 am

    I’m considering starting bngbng.net, a site wher……… Ha! It’s already been done! Check it out.

    Well actually, I was hoping to do something a little different. I’d like to start a boingboing.net where people are free (as in beer on the fourth of July) to comment. It wouldn’t take much effort… hmmm.