This morning I posted a comment on Reyna Elena’s rapidly up-and-coming collective blog Barrio Siete (BS), and it went like this:

Again, the question arises everytime some bozo-poltician comes up and announces their “candidacy” for this or that office (Whatever that may be):

Platform, plez™.

If they cannot produce then they merely aim to insult the voter’s intelligence like all other politicians in the past.

They are all the same.

But if they want to seriously DIFFERENTIATE, then show us the platform. And if you cannot come up with one, let’s not accept the usual excuse that it is “too hard”. It can be done in four easy steps.

Whether it is Edu Manzano or Vic Pacia. Whatever. If we as voters behave like a bunch of starstruck ignoramuses all the time, guess what: We get ignoramurases leading us as well.

We sow what we reap.

It’s simple, really™.

(The blog article was about an exploration of the prospects of Edu Manzano running for senator)

The thing with me is I usually type out a comment first on Notepad and then copy-and-paste it onto the text field provided by the blog or forum on which I am publishing said comment. So the above reflects the original composition that I posted on the BS entry. My little Notepad text file came unexpectedly handy in this instance.

Now for those fans of mine who’ve followed my online career over the last nine or so years, that’s a typical comment that’s got classic benign0 written all over it — I routinely provide relevant references to support the crystal-clear points I make in my comments, just like any good citizen of the blogging community. Can I help it if the most insightful references I could find on most matters happen to be my own?

The thing with blog and forum Admins, for their part, is that at some point, they actually may decide (bizarre as it sounds) that an entry starts to smell a bit like spam (the level of tolerance varies). When a critical point is reached, they either:

(a) ban the commentor permanently; and/or,

(b) delete the “offending” hyperlinks in the text.

Usually there is a warning that refers to clearly-articulated guidelines on the matter. I should know. I’ve been banned many times before.

However, in my nine years of doing this sorta thing, this is the first time I’ve come across an Admin who made partial modifications on a comment that under-handedly altered its content. And so as of the time a certain “bluepanjeet” responded to my original comment in another comment time-stamped August 24, 2009 at 11:20 am, the text in my original comment looked like this:

Again, the question arises everytime some bozo-poltician comes up and announces their “candidacy” for this or that office (Whatever that may be):

Platform, plez.

If they cannot produce then they merely aim to insult the voter’s intelligence like all other politicians in the past.

http://barriosiete.com/wp-admin/edit-comments.php#comments-form

They are all the same.

But if they want to seriously DIFFERENTIATE, then show us the platform. And if you cannot come up with one, let’s not accept the usual excuse that it is “too hard”. It can be done in four easy steps.

Whether it is Edu Manzano or Vic Pacia. Whatever. If we as voters behave like a bunch of starstruck ignoramuses all the time, guess what: We get ignoramurases leading us as well.

We sow what we reap.

It’s simple, really

The following subtle changes were made:

(1) An additional “z” was added to the URL of the hyperlink labelled “Platform, plez”; and,

(2) An additional “i” was inserted into the antipinoy domain name (spelling it “antiipinoy”) in the URL of the hyperlink labelled “four easy steps”.

Another amusing bit of trivia here is that the “™” mark on the taglines I use that my followers have grown so fond of had been deleted as well.

Classy bunch, aren’t they? Even preying upon a poor cute helpless little itsy-bitsy “™” mark.

Sometimes I wonder if the otherwise smart and educated Reyna Elena (the esteemed owner of BS) really knows the extent of the ironic behaviours exhibited by the people who surround him.

Caught red-handed with his rather childish behaviour, self-described Argumentation Police in Barrio Siete “bluepanjeet” then clarifies the matter:

Its not only “I” that I added. I also added extra “Ps”, Extra “M”s and other extras in your links. Gusto mo lotto combinations pa eh. Since you dont respect the policy of the Barrio, I deleted your links. You are stubborn as a mule. DONT SPAM. MAHIRAP BA INTINDIHIN YUN. Yang mga links mo ilang beses mo na ibinalandra. kung baga sa ka pepe, sobra ka na, libre ka na nga sa advertising ng blog mo, abuso ka naman. Magbayad ka ng 5 dollars per link sa susunod haha. Magsawa ka ngayon. Lalo ka nawalan ng links. Di ka makuha sa santong pakiusapan, pwes makuha ka sa santong DELETAN! pasalamat ka nakakapag comment ka pa. You were given democracy hindi ka naman marunong rumespeto sa binigay sayo karapatan. PWE uli LOL

My point here is that it is one thing to categorically ban or censor a commentor (actions well within the rights of any Admin worth their salt). But there is something to be said about vandalising a comment in the name of Admin “enforcement”. That kind of behaviour brings shame to the Blog Admin community. When you are an Admin, you enforce your site’s guidelines with the kind of integrity, conviction, and consistency befitting a true officer of said site.

I can respect being banned and/or having the URL’s I provide as insightful references to the brilliant points I make outright deleted.

But to have a comment vandalised before any punitive action (in reference to consistent guidelines) is taken? Well, that just makes me laugh.

And we wonder why Filipino society and its Government is such…

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Epilogue:

I do try to take on-board most nuggets of advise that gets thrown my way. So I shall cite an example of the revealing sorts of advise I routinely get over at the venerable Barrio Siete:

If you want readership LEAVE NICE COMMENTS AND DONT ARGUE WITH READERS AND COMMENTERS.

What can I say? It’s a great piece of philosophy, great, that is, for building a community of intellectual inbreds.

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