pd
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Post by pd on Jan 8, 2021 20:09:52 GMT -5
Hi everyone. Long time.
So I shifted posting news to our moderators, so I've been coaching them on postings. Appreciate your patience there.
Also, yes, we removed the ability to post comments because there were some very heated left/right leaning comments. We unfortunately post-COVID do not have staff to regulate and satisfy the moderation duties that come with it, so today after getting messages about the flame war, we were forced to act quickly to end comments because of the political fights that were ongoing.
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Post by Mudrunner1976 (NE_Ohio) on Jan 8, 2021 22:07:01 GMT -5
pd , Posting is not completely blocked. I had read one of the stories, then clicked something, then hit the back button and the story came back with recent comments. I tried the 'Post a Reply' link, but it did not work. I tried the above several times and sometimes comments would show, but the reply did not work. I kept navigating and once after clicking the link to 'GasBuddy Disables Comments On News', comments showed and clicking the reply link allowed me to post a comment. After clicking the "POST MESSAGE" link, the comments disappeared and I navigated around until I could get comments to appear to confirm that my comment did indeed post. It seems that just clicking the link to a story multiple times will sometimes bring the comments up, but usually not. Perhaps the change needed to be made on multiple servers and one was missed???
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Post by gth (Columbus OH) on Jan 8, 2021 22:55:22 GMT -5
I can't imagine idiots posting inflammatory comments that most of us won't read anyway, when we post 'OK' for points.
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Post by techpanda on Jan 9, 2021 2:43:17 GMT -5
PD, thanks for doing your best to maintain the GasBuddy website.
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Post by VanIsleRover on Jan 9, 2021 10:57:14 GMT -5
I'm sad things at GB have come to this result. These days it doesn't take much for some to spoil it for the rest of us. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GasBuddy News Article 71 votes
GasBuddy Disables Comments On News
GasBuddy Blog -- ATTENTION GASBUDDIES////////COMMENTS DISABLED Good day GasBuddies, Due to some users who were trolling the comments on news pieces, the ability to comment them is now disabled. You will now get 125 points per story read instead of 25 points for viewing and 100 points for commenting, so essentially, as long as you read five articles, you will still receive the same points. Unfortunately, with high emotions surrounding the election, this move was necessary immediately. We appreciate our loyal users, so we are keeping the points system as described above for now. If there are further issues or members abusing the comments system elsewhere with political banter, posts may be removed or users privileges revoked. Please be kind to one another. The GasBuddy Team
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I hope that once the Presidential events have settled and everyone is calm, GB might let us resume where we left off.
I sincerely hope the Covid era will settle and people get well.
Keep Healthy and stay Safe.
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Post by pd on Jan 9, 2021 11:08:15 GMT -5
pd , Posting is not completely blocked. I had read one of the stories, then clicked something, then hit the back button and the story came back with recent comments. I tried the 'Post a Reply' link, but it did not work. I tried the above several times and sometimes comments would show, but the reply did not work. I kept navigating and once after clicking the link to 'GasBuddy Disables Comments On News', comments showed and clicking the reply link allowed me to post a comment. After clicking the "POST MESSAGE" link, the comments disappeared and I navigated around until I could get comments to appear to confirm that my comment did indeed post. It seems that just clicking the link to a story multiple times will sometimes bring the comments up, but usually not. Perhaps the change needed to be made on multiple servers and one was missed??? Thanks Mudrunner- I'll keep checking here and there- there could be some small bugs as we hurried the change out, please do report going forward if these continue. Yesterday there may have been caching issues which led to the display- I did see a few comments posted as well, but again I think because some browsers had stored the old page.
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Post by pd on Jan 9, 2021 11:09:45 GMT -5
I'm sad things at GB have come to this result. These days it doesn't take much for some to spoil it for the rest of us.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GasBuddy News Article 71 votes GasBuddy Disables Comments On News GasBuddy Blog -- ATTENTION GASBUDDIES////////COMMENTS DISABLED Good day GasBuddies, Due to some users who were trolling the comments on news pieces, the ability to comment them is now disabled. You will now get 125 points per story read instead of 25 points for viewing and 100 points for commenting, so essentially, as long as you read five articles, you will still receive the same points. Unfortunately, with high emotions surrounding the election, this move was necessary immediately. We appreciate our loyal users, so we are keeping the points system as described above for now. If there are further issues or members abusing the comments system elsewhere with political banter, posts may be removed or users privileges revoked. Please be kind to one another. The GasBuddy Team ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I hope that once the Presidential events have settled and everyone is calm, GB might let us resume where we left off.
I sincerely hope the Covid era will settle and people get well.
Keep Healthy and stay Safe.
Unfortunately, we probably won't go back. Politics and such flame wars have existed since our site started, but have only grown more foul and severe in the years since. I won't promise we won't change back, but I personally don't see it. Thank you all for continuing to be GasBUddies!
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Post by MadFueler on Jan 9, 2021 12:07:31 GMT -5
'tis always a sad state when the rabble-rousers spoil it for those of us who want to see and contribute substance.
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Post by farmhillbarb on Jan 9, 2021 17:57:38 GMT -5
So sad some people had to abuse the articles to post their mess.
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Post by zippy452 on Jan 9, 2021 22:11:39 GMT -5
Sad
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Post by farmhillbarb on Jan 10, 2021 14:33:56 GMT -5
One person I know of is LQQKGAS that has posted a lot of political views on the News Articles.
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on Jan 11, 2021 19:42:51 GMT -5
If it helps... think of the wannabe commenters as a gay couple, and think of Gasbuddy as a religious baker.
Except in this case we hopefully will not have Government bureaucrats mandating that GasBuddy give the wannabe commenters what they want when GasBuddy doesn't want it.
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Post by VanIsleRover on Jan 13, 2021 22:28:28 GMT -5
We just want the Forums back...
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on Jan 23, 2021 21:12:56 GMT -5
We just want the Forums back... I'm plenty happy to have forums here instead. Besides, the forums here are a lot better as to functionality.
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Post by run101 on Jan 24, 2021 19:15:52 GMT -5
There are many people earn extra 500 points everyday with message posting bug.
The following is one example today, 16 days after GasBuddy disabled comments on news.
Message Posted: Jan 24, 2021 11:50:13 AM
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