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Even as a "fundamentalist" BBC supporter, I have to say I find the BBC's decisions about what stories have and don't have comments allowed very strange. Altho
by alan_cx 13y ago
Even as a "fundamentalist" BBC supporter, I have to say I find the BBC's decisions about what stories have and don't have comments allowed very strange.
Although, I do think the BBC still feels under pressure from government. I imagine that at times they are walking on egg shells.
- phpnode 13y agoit's nothing to do with government pressure, it's simply an issue of resources. The BBC has huge traffic and is required by law to moderate its comment pages. Some subjects (like this one, or anything to do with Paedophiles, Religion, War etc) will trigger an enormous volume of comments. It's simply not possible for the BBC to moderate them all, so they have to make the difficult decision to turn the comments off.
- yapcguy 13y agoWith the Woolwich killing, where a soldier in London was hacked to death in broad daylight, the BBC and other newspaper web sites refused to allow comments "for legal reasons". Yet there's no problem allowing comments for any other murder or celebrity overdose.
- phpnode 13y agoshow me a bbc news article about murder, suicide, accidental death etc where comments are enabled? I couldn't find one in the few minutes I spent clicking.
- alan_cx 13y agoOh no its not. I wish it were, but its not. The BBC is desperately, which much justification and reason, avoiding controversy. If they cant effectively moderate then they should stop all comments.