[imc-uk-tech] moderating comments Proposal

[zcat at ametrika.com]

The as I see it newswire comments section is getting beyond a joke there 
seem to be an awful lot of people using it to air their gripes, not to 
upload relevent news, to argue with others doing the same. Ive hidden 
articles with 81 comments 51,53 150(aprox) as it too much trouble to tick 
each one when so many
Most of them seem to be posts about the far right but posts on anarchism and 
other subjects too.
There was a comment, ran like this "Why is there 55 replies to a post about 
a tiny insignificant far right group? when the issues that are allowing the 
FR to grow, (and in my opinion, it will be a new grouping including some 
disgruntled tories, not the BNP,etc who make the running) such as poverty, 
housing, welfare etc, don't get a look in. wrong end of telescope and all 
that...."
at the bottom of one I hid just now so responsible readers/contributers are 
getting pissed off to. 

We are not a forum we are a news etc platform so... 

I propose that we should be able to disable the comments section on some 
posts or have a moderateing feature so all comments on particular posts wont 
show untill a mod authorises them so that would stop this bickering on 
particular posts.
But is this possible tech wise? to impliment a " we are moderating all 
comments on this post to stop spam" type comment/message on posts that are 
running out of control.
Andrew 

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