It was probably easier to just trash the whole thing than try to moderate 5000 comments full of racial slurs. I’ll bet somebody at Fox News is pretty pissed off at me today.
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It was probably easier to just trash the whole thing than try to moderate 5000 comments full of racial slurs. I’ll bet somebody at Fox News is pretty pissed off at me today.
Oh, you know it; if they had any sense of shame, the Fox News/Nation muckety-mucks wouldn't let their comment threads get like that to begin with, but they don't.
All of the heat they're catching is well deserved.
Oh, you know it; if they had any sense of shame, the Fox News/Nation muckety-mucks wouldn't let their comment threads get like that to begin with, but they don't.
All of the heat they're catching is well deserved.
They seem to be either under the impression that the only people reading the comments are far-right nutjobs anyway or that a easily-fooled word filter is all one needs to moderate such bile.
They seem to be either under the impression that the only people reading the comments are far-right nutjobs anyway or that a easily-fooled word filter is all one needs to moderate such bile.
They underestimate the creativity of a far-right nutjob faced with a word filter.
(They should get the word filter they have at Cracked.com. That one is amazing. It edits words like "Japanese", "despicable", "denigrate"...the word filter at Cracked knows it is up against the readers of Cracked, and it will NOT let any profanity or racial slurs through.)
Charles tweeted this handy guide for website owners yesterday.
It's worth another shot if someone from Fox (or one of Breitbart's sites)
is reading this thread:
You should have community policies about what is and isn't acceptable behavior. Your community policy should be short, written in plain language, easily accessible, and phrased in flexible terms so people aren't trying to nitpick the details of the rules when they break them. And then back them up with significant consequences when people break them: Either temporary or permanent bans on participation.
It's not enough just to flush the crap occasionally and pretend it wasn't there.
They seem to be either under the impression that the only people reading the comments are far-right nutjobs anyway or that a easily-fooled word filter is all one needs to moderate such bile.
Heh. That was one of the first places I went to as soon as I got home that night. I knew what I was going to find. It's a home for angry racists who want to take this country back to before the CRA.
This is kind of like that link someone had last night: The head of the Grammys was saying that they (the Grammys) were the victim of Chris Brown's hitting Rihanna.
Fox News is the victim of the racist comments posted on these threads.
They underestimate the creativity of a far-right nutjob faced with a word filter.
(They should get the word filter they have at Cracked.com. That one is amazing. It edits words like "Japanese", "despicable", "denigrate"...the word filter at Cracked knows it is up against the readers of Cracked, and it will NOT let any profanity or racial slurs through.)
Honestly, applying a word filter to a place like Fox News would be like trying to put a word filter on SomethingAwful. Someone, somewhere, will find a way around it, and then the floodgates will open. There is just no way to hold such a tide of bile back.
bama23 15 hours ago
The Grammys was a bust. Worst ever and certainly not entertaining. Kept watching but finally gave up.
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herbvette 23 hours ago
Tribute? To a junkie? People will watch this?
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herbvette 23 hours ago
Tribute? To a junkie?
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idi2008 23 hours ago
Thank the good Lord I dont watch the Grammys. I refuse to support a tribute to a drug addict.
How about a singing tribute to the Soldier that lost his/her life to defend our freedoms instead?
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herbvette 23 hours ago in reply to idi2008
Agreed. Thank you.
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jaypam 1 day ago
We pray for the family and friends of Whitney Houston. Life is like a Vapor! We know we lost an 18 year old son in a very UNUSUAL way! See his story at [Link: RacetoHeaven.com...] Jesus is Real and He will always Love You
Read more: [Link: www.foxnews.com...]
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paulasjordan 1 day ago
jennifer is a good pick to sing whitney's songs. she screams, i mean sings, just like her.
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gypsyros1 1 day ago
Surprise! Who didn't see this one coming? I've got $100 that says that Hudson and Beyonce' Knowles start jockeying for who will play Houston in "The Whitney Houston Story".
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darkkarma 1 day ago
Oh Jesus, Here We Go !
The N i g s will be crying and wailing over the loss of Princess Shaniqua !
Charles tweeted this handy guide for website owners yesterday.
It's worth another shot if someone from Fox (or one of Breitbart's sites)
is reading this thread:
It's not enough just to flush the crap occasionally and pretend it wasn't there.
A lot of people will say that with a community as large as Fox News, there's just no way to implement such a policy. Baloney. This is why you hand-pick moderating teams and monitor their moderation efforts. You can then discipline any moderators who are out of line, and replace them with moderators who are more capable of enforcing the rules.
All my life there has been this underside to the American society - the subset of Americans who really are full of hate and bigotry. In the old days newspaper editors could just ignore their letters. Politicians would shun them (in public anyway), save for the rare atavistic fringe politician. The bigots would rely on newsletters and local meetings.
Today, empowered by modern communications technology, bigots everywhere can declare their ugliness for all to see, in beautifully formated HTML.
axmax83 3 hours ago in reply to justwondering48
BWAH HA HA HA HA . If he does, niqqers will be WORSE off. White people have had enough as it is, another four years and there will not be a white person left who will want anything less than the annihilation of the parasitical race! Face it niqqers, you have all f'ed yourselves.
Four more years and there will be outright "cibil" war in this country. The country will overtake the coontry. The mistakes that we have made will NEVER be repeated.
The question is whether Fox wants to alienate part of their customer base, which they have worked hard (from dog whistling to faux reporting) to accumulate.
Any website owner concerned about long term integrity would just start banning users, ip addresses, maybe even whole address blocks if necessary.
I'm starting to see a little steam coming out of the web server. More than 6,000 people online for the last few hours.
Seriously though, I wouldn't expect any changes in policy from Fox News, except temporary ones. This is their audience and they've spent a lot of time cultivating it.
I'm starting to see a little steam coming out of the web server. More than 6,000 people online for the last few hours.
Seriously though, I wouldn't expect any changes in policy from Fox News, except temporary ones. This is their audience and they've spent a lot of time cultivating it.
I'd ask why anyone would want such a vile, insipid bunch of cretins for an audience, but hey, they're more than welcome to keep them. Just don't ask me to participate or approve.
Speaking of steam, I found something that would make even more of it spew from Breitbart's ears - it contains not one, but two right-wing meltdown inducers:
Speaking of steam, I found something that would make even more of it spew from Breitbart's ears - it contains not one, but two right-wing meltdown inducers:
TROTTA: But while all of this is going on, just a few weeks ago, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta commented on a new Pentagon report on sexual abuse in the military. I think they have actually discovered there is a difference between men and women. And the sexual abuse report says that there has been, since 2006, a 64% increase in violent sexual assaults. Now, what did they expect? These people are in close contact, the whole airing of this issue has never been done by Congress, it’s strictly been a question of pressure from the feminist.
And the feminists have also directed them, really, to spend a lot of money. They have sexual counselors all over the place, victims’ advocates, sexual response coordinators. … So, you have this whole bureaucracy upon bureaucracy being built up with all kinds of levels of people to support women in the military who are now being raped too much.
Getting a buzz from booze may boost creativity. Men who drank themselves tipsy solved more problems demanding verbal resourcefulness in less time than sober guys did, a new study finds.
Sudden, intuitive insights into tricky word-association problems occurred more frequently when men were intoxicated but not legally drunk, say psychology graduate student Andrew Jarosz of the University of Illinois at Chicago and his colleagues. Sober men took a more deliberative approach to this task.
A moderate alcoholic high loosens a person’s focus of attention, making it easier to find connections among remotely related ideas, the scientists propose online January 28 in Consciousness and Cognition.
I'm trying to remember exactly what the topic was, but Fox news did this at least once in the past to another story's comment section that had gone unmanagably racist. We were monitoring it here and it was getting some further attention on other sites, and then a couple thousand comments went poof. I'm thinking it was maybe something about the First Lady.
"I think they have actually discovered there is a difference between men and women. "
I have always been aware that there is a difference between men and women.
Does this lady realize that she's saying that the difference is that men are animalistic, uncontrollable sociopaths who will routinely attack their own coworkers, and we ought to just plan on that?
"I think they have actually discovered there is a difference between men and women. "
I have always been aware that there is a difference between men and women.
Does this lady realize that she's saying that the difference is that men are animalistic, uncontrollable sociopaths who will routinely attack their own coworkers, and we ought to just plan on that?
Well, they go around pissing on dead bodies and pose with Nazi symbols...
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I'd love to know who posted the Fox Comments thread to Facebook - we're getting tens of thousands of hits from FB today. Must have been a high profile face.
Also, there's a grave problem with that report. Only journalists with high credibility can easily rely on anonymous sources. The dailycaller guys are not such credible journalists, I do not trust them to properly weigh their ex-MM employee evidence (i.e. whether they were talking with pissed off putzes, etc.). So the report is useless, more or less.
Yeah, the dailycaller hit-piece. Meh. Character assassination. They don't deal with the substance of Media Matters content.
It's amazing how spectacularly hypocritical they are.
Fox has Brent Bozell on almost daily, who runs the Media Research Center (which is kind of Media Matters' mirror universe twin) which is also a 10+ million dollar a year outfit, though it focuses on "liberal media bias". They also constantly have on folks from Heritage, AEI, American's for Prosperity, etc -- all of which subsist on wingnut welfare from RW billionaires (but, but Soros! ///). Then they're whining about American Bridge 21st Century, which has raised only a tiny fraction of the money that Karl Rove's superpac has, and they give Rove a daily platform on their channel, paying him to pretend he's some sort of objective political analyst instead of one of the foremost operators on the front-lines of current and upcoming elections.
Napolitano will remain with the network in other capacities, although without a show of his own and a dedicated time slot, it is almost certain we will see less of him from now on. I'd also speculate he has a non-disparagement clause in his contract with FOX, which would explain why he has been such a saint and gentleman about all this, when most people would be going for the network's jugular. He even posted to his official Facebook, asking his fans to tone down the "email traffic to Fox" regarding his show cancellation.
Now, can I say with 100% certainty that he was canceled because he shined a constant, bright, undeniable light on "uncomfortable" issues such as Congressional corruption, increasingly powerful Occupy protests, economic unrest, the NDAA, and the dangerous rollback of our civil rights since 9/11?
No, of course not -- I don't work at FOX, and I have no idea what went through their minds when they pulled the plug on Freedom Watch.
But the fact remains: there is now not even ONE anchor in the United States, on a major network, routinely covering the NDAA's imprisonment without trial provisions and the Obama administration's never-ending attack on American citizens' core civil liberties.
the bill is so ineptly drafted that it could intrude deeply into teacher’s private lives. SB 1467 doesn’t just ban public speech or conduct, but all speech and conduct. That means public school teachers in Arizona will be forbidden from engaging in any FCC-regulated activities no matter where they are. That means no sex, no going to the bathroom, no cursing and no showering. Ever.
Hatch is hardly the only Republican to blatantly lie like this. It's a sad comment on the GOP when they think the response to being caught lying can be "not intended to be factual"...but many of us have been sad for some time.
I didn't watch the video of Ellen's message to the "Million Moms" on her show on Fox News' site...can't remember where I watched it, but a large number of the comments were pretty nauseating. One that really jumped out at me...the guy was saying he hated gays because "the act" (you know, that "unnatural" act they are so obsessed about) was so disgusting to him.
OK, ummm...so how does this reason for hating gays apply to lesbians?
I didn't watch the video of Ellen's message to the "Million Moms" on her show on Fox News' site...can't remember where I watched it, but a large number of the comments were pretty nauseating. One that really jumped out at me...the guy was saying he hated gays because "the act" (you know, that "unnatural" act they are so obsessed about) was so disgusting to him.
OK, ummm...so how does this reason for hating gays apply to lesbians?
Frank says: