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#4400454 - 01/17/18 02:24 AM Do you comment on news blogs?  
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I do, quite a lot, on conservative News blogs, usually The Australian. I get censored out maybe 30% of the time.


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#4400473 - 01/17/18 04:27 AM Re: Do you comment on news blogs? [Re: Mad Max]  
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#4400474 - 01/17/18 04:33 AM Re: Do you comment on news blogs? [Re: Mad Max]  
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No. It is a waste of time.


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#4400491 - 01/17/18 09:50 AM Re: Do you comment on news blogs? [Re: Mad Max]  
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I was quite active in a very leftist Austrian newspaper, mostly shooting holes into their "articles". Eventually they blocked me.

#4400500 - 01/17/18 11:45 AM Re: Do you comment on news blogs? [Re: cichlidfan]  
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Originally Posted by cichlidfan
No. It is a waste of time.



+1

Really, what's the point? No one ever changes their position on an issue just because some faceless stranger posts a contrary position online. It's really all about self-affirmation of already long-held beliefs.


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#4400507 - 01/17/18 12:47 PM Re: Do you comment on news blogs? [Re: Mad Max]  
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Never. Never even read them.


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#4400517 - 01/17/18 01:57 PM Re: Do you comment on news blogs? [Re: RSColonel_131st]  
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Originally Posted by RSColonel_131st
I was quite active in a very leftist Austrian newspaper, mostly shooting holes into their "articles". Eventually they blocked me.


LOL.

Yep, that will happen every time!


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#4400667 - 01/18/18 01:21 AM Re: Do you comment on news blogs? [Re: Mad Max]  
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I've never even read a blog, or taken one serious enough to comment

#4400688 - 01/18/18 04:04 AM Re: Do you comment on news blogs? [Re: Mad Max]  
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Nope, I care about those about as much as my first pair of socks.
My wife does quite a bit tho, she has a passion for harassing the Pro-Beijing bloggers in Hong Kong, rubbing their nose into their very own sh!t.
Useless but might just as well do it while still allowed... :-/

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#4400701 - 01/18/18 06:43 AM Re: Do you comment on news blogs? [Re: Mad Max]  
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no i avoid blogs, Facebook, Twitter, etc as my personal coming and going is always under scrutiny


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#4400717 - 01/18/18 12:37 PM Re: Do you comment on news blogs? [Re: Haggart]  
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Originally Posted by Haggart
no i avoid blogs, Facebook, Twitter, etc as my personal coming and going is always under scrutiny


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#4400755 - 01/18/18 03:50 PM Re: Do you comment on news blogs? [Re: Mad Max]  
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Hehe yea maybe but 3 more years and that chain comes off. The chain i lost this year was my mortgage payment.


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#4400764 - 01/18/18 04:50 PM Re: Do you comment on news blogs? [Re: Mad Max]  
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#4400803 - 01/18/18 08:50 PM Re: Do you comment on news blogs? [Re: Mad Max]  
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I read a lot and comment a little on such blogs as "Cdr Salamander", "Transterrestrial Musings" and "USNI News". They are well moderated and mostly visited/commented on by mature, sane adults.


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#4400986 - 01/19/18 09:03 PM Re: Do you comment on news blogs? [Re: Mad Max]  
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Depends. Most "news Outlets" are actually blogs in one form or another.

I comment on some. For "news", almost always it is in the hope that somebody out there gets the actual facts instead of the "Agreed On By the Ignorant Group of Laymen" facts that the innerwebz has adopted instead of the reality of the universe.

But more commonly it's hockey blogs I comment on. But you'd be surprised. It might seem like nobody takes into consideration what the comments on a blog have to say, but once in a while somebody has a "wow that's something I didn't consider" moment. Also not everyone who reads comments in turn then replies.

With hockey blogs...I'm more than happy to explain why my opinion is right and yours is wrong. It's all for fun.


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