kwhitefoot
31 October 2010 8:54PM
BeautifulBurnout
31 October 2010 9:13PM
kwhitefoot
I know! It is really annoying when you craft a response to a bunch of nonsense, only to find that cos the nonsense has been deleted, your own post is zapped into the ether as well!
At least it wasn't really long and difficult to do...
kwhitefoot
31 October 2010 9:54PM
As an antidote to the Guardian's occasional lapse into the covering up of Cif history I have installed a Firefox add-on called History Search that takes snapshots of every page you visit every time you visit so that you can search in the history of the page. So, if a comment unexpectedly disappears and you have a feeling that it said something important, relevant, or merely amusing, you can at least satisfy your own curiosity. Of course one could also repost the offending comment either on Cif or elsewhere. You can find it at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7028/
Perhaps Cif should consider disemvowelling as on Boing-Boing and ScienceBlogs instead of outright deletion.
This one hasn't been deleted yet:
kwhitefoot
1 November 2010 7:36AM
This is getting silly. The moderator has now removed my post that began:
31 October 2010 9:54PMAs an antidote to the Guardian's occasional lapse into the covering up of Cif history I have installed a Firefox add-on called History Search
Several of BeautifulBurnout's comments that referred to either me or Ostmark have also disappeared.
In a thread that is all about access to information and exercise of civil liberty it seems strange that the moderators should be both anonymous and arbitrary and that they do not have the courtesy to explain to the commenter even briefly why the comment has been deleted.
I think I'll have to start archiving these comments myself. Ostmark's has been deleted and so has the reply but worse the fact of the reply has disappeared as well.