Where did all the older comments go?
There were more than 1,400 comments, including mine, on several Yahoo Philippines Fit to Post blog posts related to the failurefest that is the handling of the August 23 hostage crisis at the Quirino Grandstand. Now they’re all gone and instead there are these odd (and apparently unrelated) and completely outdated comments on these posts.
This comment is from Anger and shock in Hong Kong over Manila siege:
This one is from Manila hostage crisis: Responsible or irresponsible media coverage? :
These comments aren’t related to the articles, they’re dated as two years old which is ridiculous, and the hundreds of comments made by so many people on each of these posts when the articles were still “hot” are gone. What the hell is going on???
I’d hate to think Yahoo Philippines is now censoring comments by deleting them in favor of whoever were at the receiving end of the very critical comments, but if they’ve been hacked into they’re being silent about it. What gives?
What’s going on, Yahoo Philippines?
Did they? I had some comments there too.
Maybe because it had become a venue of racists in their racist war. Yes we saw pinoy racists and chinese racists there, too. They were busy with their business some were not even relevant with the subject or post.
Hi RLTJ. Perhaps they did find those irrelevant hater/racist comments rather distasteful, sure. I’m all for removing those kinds of comments. But if that’s the case, it’s so lazy of them to just make ALL comments disappear including the good, well-thought out ones.
When Yahoo Phils FTP made all those comments disappear (including mine), they showed BLATANT DISREGARD for what we have already expressed on their site. They should be thankful we even bothered to involve ourselves in the discussion on their site, but I guess they don’t appreciate that at all.
In other words, if they wanted to sanitize the comments area, they should have done so by proper monitoring and diligent comment moderation, not wholesale deletion.