Personal Disrespect and Abuse of the Commenting Feature

This blog was creating in order to share with any willing readers my own personal stance on current Jersey life. With the website set up in blog format, comments are not only enabled but welcomed as a way in which readers may interact and share their own opinions with my posts. However recently, specifically my latest post entitled 'The End of A Holiday in the Sun', certain commenters have abused this feature of the website.

I have always maintained the right to unmoderated anonymous commenting on the website, however from this post forward this will be changed. You may still comment anonymously, however your comments must now be verified by myself before they appear on the website.

Until the previous post I have not experienced any difficulties with comments, however the previous post somehow managed to stir up disrespect indirectly aimed at myself and plain abuse. Just a sample of the comments which have now been deleted from the aforementioned post include:

...PLANET JERSEY IS THE ONLY DECENT FORUM ALL THE OTHERS ARE CRAP... (or something similar).

As childish as this may sound, this is my personal blog and so not a place for blatent advertisements. If you would like a link displayed on The State of Jersey, please feel free to contact me and we will discuss it. Do not take it upon yourself to use the comment feature as a way to do so!

Another comment read:

DEPORT THE POOR
BRING IN IMMIGRANTS WHO WILL WORK FOR FUCK ALL AND BE GRATFUL.
JERSEY PEOPLE ARE JUST A BUNCH OF FUCKIN WHINGERS

What on earth has this comment to do with the post it was left on? I am guessing this is a result of an early post entitled 'The Xenophobic Islander' where I stated my concern for growing racist behaviour on the part of a small few Jersey residents. However this is blatently a racist remark directed at Jerseymen. It could even be a sarcastic comment written by a Jersey resident? I simply do not know, however it has of course been removed. It added absolutely nothing to the discussion and was obviously written with the intention of provoking hatred.

There were other posts (one stating something along the lines of 'you are all sad'), oh and another advertisement for Planet Jersey, and these have also been removed.

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I have never wanted to moderate comments here on the website, however this has left me no choice. If I did not do so, this blog would quickly become a spam-, advertisement-, and abuse-ridden blog of no value. I apologise to regular, non-abusive readers, however I am sure you understand why this must now be done.

I have nothing to say to the commenters who left those comments.

- Benjamin Langlois