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Please read our Please read ourI’d noticed a lot of comments recently by people unhappy about certain aspects of the way The Mag commenting section is administered.
After an especially heavy bout of complaints made by various posters a few days ago, I decided to contact the editor for some clarification on these issues. I felt as though some of the comments and questions were quite interesting, some were ill-informed and one or two were plain daft . Disqus is a platform which is “bolted on” to the website – simply providing a service which is paid for and it is largely up to The Mag how it is used. Having said that, Disqus have guidelines for websites with an expectation that they will be respected and that the behaviour of those using the commenting system on the Mag will be monitored and transgressions dealt with appropriately.
It’s a time-consuming job to respond to these alerts and the more there are the more time is lost. Although it is amusing to see the mental gymnastics some people go to to invent new ways of expressing banned words using emojis and alternative keyboard characters this can cause great stress and frustration for the staff as Disqus adds more and more forms to its dictionary and the alerts continue.
At the beginning of the article I mentioned “illusory” bans. This was reference to the very annoying occurrence of being told you’ve been “banned by the Mag”, being unable to log on to comment only to find later that, in fact, you had not been banned by the Mag at all. This has happened to me a few times. The editor was very clear on this. It is absolutely a “glitch” within the Disqus system which suddenly started after a system update some time ago.
Gradually, though, I have, hopefully – along with the vast majority of posters on here – largely left that sort of stuff behind. I find nowadays that most interchanges involve things like interesting dissections of the games, the transfer prospects, team selection and tactics, finances, technical issues likeThere’s a far lower incidence now of bickering, bullying and sheer, bloody-minded wind-ups and I, for one, appreciate that.
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