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Some years ago I published a post about Ranger's/Look & Learn's comic strip, The Trigan Empire, only for it to disappear from my blog shortly after. I started to rewrite it when I received a notification that my original post was going to be restored, so I ended up writing a composite of both posts. So what was the problem with the first one? I don't think it was ever properly explained, but I believe it was something to do with my use of the word 'Empire', making the Blogger watchmen think it was something to do with the British Empire and 'colonisation'.* Seems we're under scrutiny.
Recently, I commented on McScotty's Now & Then blog, and then added a follow-up comment in which I mentioned DC's '70s Simon & Kirby comic entitled Black Magic. The comment was published - I saw it with my own eyes - but when I checked later to see if McS had replied to it, it had completely disappeared - with no evidence that it had ever existed. So I left a third comment, only for the same thing to happen again. Was it my use of the name Black Magic in both subsequent comments that led to them being deleted? If so, it seems that censorship is alive and well in Bloggerland.
Or could there be another, more innocent explanation? Remember, though, that the comments were initially published on the blog until later vanishing with no trace of their existence.
(*And if you'd like to see the post referred to, just type 'Building An Empire' into my blog's search box and take a read of the update at the bottom.)
6 comments:
Sometimes comments disappear for no reason but it's just glitches in the system I think.
What usually happens, CJ, is a reader will try and submit a comment, but however many times they try, it just won't appear. However, my two comments were actually published at the time I submitted them, then disappeared later. All very mysterious to my way of thinking.
Mmmmm that is strange Kid. I've had a few go missing like Colin notes recently but never once they were published. I may reply on my blog Black Magic to see if it's some algorithm that deletes these words
Yeah, can't get my head around it, McS - first time it's happened to me in that particular way.
Kid, I've had comments appear on the Steve Does Comics blog which then disappear again - Steve says Google sometimes labels comment as trash so he regularly checks in the trash folder in case any comments have been re-directed there.
If so, they'll be in McS's trash folder, not mine, CJ.
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