New comment moderation policy at The Energy Collective

TEC editors decided to moderate (and often edit, without notice or attribution) all comments on the site.

This was done without making any announcement, and nobody responds to e-mails.

Discussion is open here.

Edit:  The editors are also censoring cites of their own, published policy posted in reply to people wondering out loud what happened.  They are evil.

Edit 2:  Here is Roger Arnold's comment where he wonders what's going on:

Nice article, and Willem’s comments and links are excellent.

This is mostly just a test. Elsewhere, I’m getting “your comment is being held for moderation”. Have I fallen from grace generally, or is it something peculiar to the article on which I tried to comment?

Here's what I wrote in reply:

It's not just you.  The site imposed a brand-new comment moderation policy without making any sort of announcement.

One of the effects I've seen is that nothing happens on weekends.

The staff do not respond to e-mails (I've mailed them enough lately) so if anyone wants to discuss these issues I invite you over to The Ergosphere.

They have published comments posted later than this one, but are censoring a pointer to their own new policy.  This is proof of a guilty conscience.  They know they're doing wrong.


  ¶ 6/05/2017 12:01:00 PM 4 comments