# Daily Mail Mods abusing their power! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 22, 2015, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-mail-mods-abusing-their-power/723150 "2015-06-22T13:59:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dibbs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dibbs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dibbs)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2015, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-mail-mods-abusing-their-power/723150/21 "2015-06-22T16:56:38Z")
> [@Alley\_Dweller](#): > > (Color Added.) > > That’s nothing compared to their mascara Mods! Oops! An embarrassing typo; third one this year.:o ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2015, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-mail-mods-abusing-their-power/723150/22 "2015-06-22T16:58:31Z")
> [@installLSC](#): > > I can’t remember the last time I read an unmoderated comments section on a blog/newssite for anything but laughs. This. Unless they’re at least lightly moderated, the now-universal “comments” tail is nothing but open-mike night for the loud, stupid and obnoxious. I haven’t found it worth sifting through for intelligent or worthwhile comments for years. I really wish news sites would move back away from the bloggity-blog model and differentiate between opinion pieces - which warrant comments - and news, which does not. ---
**Author:** ![Dibbs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dibbs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dibbs)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2015, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-mail-mods-abusing-their-power/723150/23 "2015-06-22T17:00:40Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > No, no one takes their cue from the Daily Mail online comments. It’s meaningless in the grand scheme of things - do you really feel that the comments on the Daily Mail website has any impact on other papers, let alone anyone else in a position of power? Well, to get one’s ideas out there for others to consider seems like a worthwhile endeavor, no? If we follow your logic then we could always throw our hands up and say, “What will it matter a million years from now?”:rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Dibbs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dibbs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dibbs)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2015, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-mail-mods-abusing-their-power/723150/24 "2015-06-22T17:05:30Z")
> [@installLSC](#): > > I can’t remember the last time I read an unmoderated comments section on a blog/newssite for anything but laughs. So you prefer someone to cherry-pick for you comments they think you should find of value, 'eh? Well, in the words of Larry King, I guess that’s what makes horse racing.:rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Dibbs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dibbs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dibbs)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2015, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-mail-mods-abusing-their-power/723150/25 "2015-06-22T17:13:41Z")
> [@WilyQuixote](#): > > Not a pleasant thought, as what people seem to _really_ think isn’t too dissimilar to a ranting racist uncle. But is it not a good thing to hear-out what a “ranting racist uncle” has to say if there’s a chance that one can get him to let some steam off, settle down, and then try and speak some reason to him? I personally feel that there’s a lot of ticking time-bombs walking around on account of some folks feeling frustrated because they don’t believe their points of view are being heard the way so many others are. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2015, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-mail-mods-abusing-their-power/723150/26 "2015-06-22T18:53:46Z")
> [@Dibbs](#): > > Well, to get one’s ideas out there for others to consider seems like a worthwhile endeavor, no? If you want to get people to take your ideas seriously you don’t use the comments section of the DM website. You might as well use notes written on public toilet stall walls. No one cares about comment sections of news websites for good reason; they are sad, pathetic places frequented by trolls, idiots, and malcontents. And that goes double for the Daily Mail. The only sites that have even a modicum of respectability are ones that have heavy moderation. ---
**Author:** ![Dibbs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dibbs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dibbs)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2015, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-mail-mods-abusing-their-power/723150/27 "2015-06-22T20:22:24Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > If you want to get people to take your ideas seriously you don’t use the comments section of the DM website. You might as well use notes written on public toilet stall walls. > > No one cares about comment sections of news websites for good reason; they are sad, pathetic places frequented by trolls, idiots, and malcontents. And that goes double for the Daily Mail. The only sites that have even a modicum of respectability are ones that have heavy moderation. We agree to disagree. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2015, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-mail-mods-abusing-their-power/723150/28 "2015-06-22T20:56:20Z")
> [@Dibbs](#): > > We agree to disagree. That’s fine. I really don’t think this is worth getting worked up over, but if you disagree that’s OK too. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2015, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-mail-mods-abusing-their-power/723150/29 "2015-06-22T21:02:34Z")
> [@Dibbs](#): > > But is it not a good thing to hear-out what a “ranting racist uncle” has to say if there’s a chance that one can get him to let some steam off, settle down, and then try and speak some reason to him? > > I personally feel that there’s a lot of ticking time-bombs walking around on account of some folks feeling frustrated because they don’t believe their points of view are being heard the way so many others are. This is how I feel. Just because you don’t want to read/hear racist uncle’s point of view doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. At least in a comments section you have the option to be the bigger person and speak rationally to them, or at least realize what sort of viewpoints are out there for better or worse. It doesn’t hurt to be informed, information is power. I think comments sections are a wonderful thing. Before the Internet news via newspapers and television was a largely passive thing outside your immediate friends and family. You could write a letter and wait weeks or months to see if they published it. But it was very slow and non-interactive. Now you can post opinions and information about content from all over the world. In fact I often learn just as much from the comments on a site like [Wired.com](http://Wired.com) as I do from the actual article. Of course human nature often pops up and you get trolls and other unpleasantness, but you gotta take the good with the bad. Really upvote/downvote systems like [Reddit.com](http://Reddit.com) work fairly well to upvote good content and mostly hide highly objectionable content, although everything does tend tend to get watered down to a certain Reddit “hivemind” set of likes and dislikes that becomes apparent after a while. Well the same could be said for SDMB. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![bb49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b38774/32.png) [@bb49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bb49)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2015, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-mail-mods-abusing-their-power/723150/30 "2015-06-23T04:36:34Z")
I love the DM, and the comment section even more. The comments do give a good insite as to what the readers think. I have never had a comment “moderated”, but occasionally it isn’t published and they send me nasty e-mail. but overall, I’m a bit surprised at what they do allow. I usually post what I think, but depending on my mood, I can be a shit disturber. As for DM being right-wing, well I never gave that much thought. It’s simply entertainment for me. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2015, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-mail-mods-abusing-their-power/723150/31 "2015-06-23T04:46:53Z")
> [@](#): > > it seems like all of the English-speaking papers in the world get their heads-up from the DM cite? The whole world, huh? ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2015, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-mail-mods-abusing-their-power/723150/32 "2015-06-23T06:26:27Z")
The Daily Mail is the Watneys Red Barrel of journalism. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2015, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-mail-mods-abusing-their-power/723150/33 "2015-06-23T13:00:50Z")
The comments section of almost every news site is an echo chamber of assholes. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2015, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-mail-mods-abusing-their-power/723150/34 "2015-06-23T13:35:50Z")
> [@Dibbs](#): > > Easier said than done, especially since it seems like all of the English-speaking papers in the world get their heads-up from the DM … What on earth are you talking about? ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2015, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-mail-mods-abusing-their-power/723150/35 "2015-06-24T13:35:13Z")
> [@Dibbs](#): > > it’s getting to be a joke to actually think they really care about wanting to know what us regular folks think by letting us give our thoughts without feeling as if Nazis are looking over our shoulders. Did someone mention [the Daily Mail and Nazis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Mail#The_rise_of_fascism)? ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2015, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-mail-mods-abusing-their-power/723150/36 "2015-06-24T14:49:41Z")
> [@Dibbs](#): > > Easier said than done, especially since it seems like all of the English-speaking papers in the world get their heads-up from the DM … and, to my knowledge, don’t have a substantial website like the DM has. I shudder to think what research you’ve done to state the above. Presumably none? :smack: Here’s a list of the national newspapers in England with websites (all of them substantial; none of them taking a lead from the Daily Mail.) The Guardian The Times The Telegraph The Observer The Mirror The Sun The Sunday Times The Daily Express The Financial Times ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2015, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-mail-mods-abusing-their-power/723150/37 "2015-06-24T14:59:48Z")
> [@Dibbs](#): > > Then they have a lot of rouge Mods in that case.☹ You’re confusing them with Reddit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-mail-mods-abusing-their-power/723150.md?page=1)