How dare they inject fear into this holiday season. If they'd do their f*#ing jobs then they wouldn't have to issue such stupid warnings. It just disgusts me. If you all haven't seen The Power of Nightmares, the BBC documentary on this new age of terror politics, you really should. You can see it for free at google.com/video.

I'm just so dam tired of all this terror shit. Really, genuinely tired. Always keeping us on edge and in fear. How many people have died from terror on an annual basis since and including 2001? About 500. Ladies and gentlemen, heart disease, cancer, and obesity are MUCH greater threats to this nation.

John Reid is total c*cksmoking sell-out prick. The politics of fear is despicable, cynical and disgusting. Just the other month or so I thought the Bird Flu fear mongering was over, after there'd been a ton of shit from the media with big bright double ended arrow graphics across France to Britain showing "just how far away bird flu is from our shores" (as if it were the f*cking Nazis or something), and how "even cats might spread the disease" (considering cats are the number one domestic pet in the UK that was blatantly trying to freak people out), and how people should run a mile if they "see a dead bird, or even a live one". It was as if they were trying to instigate some kind of Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" type hysteria and panic where people dare not venture outside for fear of "THE BIRDS", making people dive for cover as soon as they heard birdsong.

Anyway I thought all that had passed, but on comes a once pretty good documentary program called "Horizon", who've now sold out and often make bullshit about "al Qeada". I didn’t watch the program but I caught the advert, and it ended it with, and this is basically an exact quote;

"With only enough vaccine for 8% of the worlds population, we say if, nature says.... when!".

Total fear mongers even if true. I suppose the Christmassy Robin Redbreast will probably be bringing gifts of Flu this season, or maybe if John Reid gets his way we’ll be told that “al Qeada” have strapped explosives to them and trained them to fly into people’s houses on Christmas Day just when people are opening their presents and detonate themselves. Despicable, Machiavellian fear mongering assholes.

I actually understand your frustration, but perhaps some of these people have actually improved?

I think "Real Truther" has; though we have issues, I consider it a personal matter, not a site issue. Reguardless, I have seen improvement and consider the matter truced for now. As for the others, only CHF seems to be a problem(and possibly a troll, but they aren't verified--if it's the person I'm thinking of).

I'd advise emailing the moderators; they are actually responsive. In Nov. I was banned for no reason. Yeah, I was pissed, but as I knew I hadn't done anything wrong, I kept my cool(mostly), used another computer and emailed dz asking why. Turns out my IP was part of a series that included trouble makers. Within a day my access was restored once I sent my IP to dz.

See, 911Blogger can be responsive. Compare this to the Loose Change forum: While I love the lads who did it, whoever manages their forum is a flake. After registering and making one post, I was banned from making posts(the post was about pyroclastic flows re:WTC). I emailed the people in charge. Twice. Never got a response. I have never been back(I was using a different handle). I will still support "Loose Change" but I also tell people whoever is managing their forums is a wanker.

email our moderators--just a thought.

I attack ideas, not people.  I have made some rare exceptions, you were not one of them.

I updated the rules page a few nights ago with a brief comment on the status of moderation in response to your (and other's) recent posting/flooding of requests for us to enforce our rules. you can find the rules page here.

I know I haven't taken the time to update the FAQ, rules, and help sections since I initially set them up, but I do intend to update them once I have more pressing issues taken care of.

So, to put it simply, comment moderation is in the hands of the users of this site. If you don't like how a comment is rated, then use your own voting abilities to vote your opinion and where appropriate encourage others to help improve the overall tone of the site.

As for some on the site who have taken up unnecessary use of profanity, hounding others, inserting divisive arguments into any thread they wish, being overly aggressive, voting down opinions instead of bad behavior, etc. - i make use of the voting abilities the same as you, and that's it.

As for moderating users who are continually misusing the site, or going against the stated rules, there is little point in banning such users being that they can in turn simply post anonymously. As such this site is staying an open forum of sorts with the community providing the only moderation of comments at the moment - asside from any pr0n spamming i might randomly catch. If/when we stop allowing anonymous postings we will have more control in moderating users - assuming we can find an acceptable method.

The reason we no longer play a large role in such comment moderation is quite simple. Today I worked a 12 hour work day. During that time I was not able to moderate anything which might go against our posted rules. During that time hundreds of responses to the offending comment may have been posted. By this point it is impossible to moderate, and if we were to moderate we would then be attacked/criticized for being 'nazis', and if we werent around to moderate others for similar behavior immediately then we would be attacked for not being fair in our moderation. I have tried every route of moderation and there is no such thing as moderation to which everyone will agree with, likewise there is a valid arguement that there should be no centralized role in who determines what is and is not 'acceptable'.

I would encourage everyone to take a step back and try to make the comments around here more hospitable, I know that would make me happy.

So, until such time as someone wants to fund 3 different moderators to work 8 hour shifts - thus covering 24 hours a day - there is no real moderation that we can do that is both timely and 'fair' to all.

Hope that helps, and like I said, I will be updating our information pages and posting more on this subject soon - assuming I don't have to work 12+ hour shifts more frequently ;)

And yes, if you want a response I would appreciate an email rather than posting comments directed at the team members of this site - believe it or not I only read a small number of the comments here.