Comments on: Ahem

By: Meerkat :)

Meerkat :) — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:35:20 +0000

The timesofmalta.com has become the online Xarabank.

It’s not a compliment.

[Daphne – No, the portal is excellent. The problem lies entirely with the comments. They’re the kind you get on YouTube.]

By: amrio

amrio — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:24:01 +0000

timesofmalta.com has become a veritable rubbish dump. Last week, there was some article about I-don’t-know-what, and someone had the cheek/stupidity to post a comment with words to this effect:

“I’m not an expert on this field, so I won’t comment”

Billions of blue blistering barnacles!!! Get a life, people!!!

By: Antoine Vella

Antoine Vella — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:17:57 +0000

The decision to turn The Times website into a kind of forum and allow the public to post comments was an interesting one but I’m not sure that the experiment is succeeding.

The comments have become as prominent as the news items and the opinion pieces themselves and have significantly lowered the standard of the whole website and, consequently, the paper.

I certainly do not expect all posts to have my same point of view and I’d enjoy an intelligent debate with someone who disagreed with me but what can I say to a person who intends to ‘strenthin his hopes’?

Surely the moderators could be a little more selective in what gets published. They do not seem to realise that foolish, semi-literate posts reflect badly on The Times.

By: Frank Camilleri

Frank Camilleri — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:57:29 +0000

Hellloooooooo Michael!!!!! There’s a spellcheck facility on every word processor!! Stick to IT-TORCA or KULLHADD ras !

By: matthewl

matthewl — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:50:19 +0000

Michael Gatt`s description of these demonstrations remind me of those suspect weight loss plan testimonies:

“I needed my courage strenthined and saw INSTANT results with the MLP demonstration. I already feel an instant sense of strethined hope and with the GWU demonstration, I am expecting to take my hopes to the next level. To anyone reading this, let me tell you, these public demonstrations REALLY work!”

By: Darren

Darren — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:59:59 +0000

LP? Gee, I thought they went out of fashion in the late eighties, superseded by CDs.

By: Scerri S

Scerri S — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:30:40 +0000

Wow! Impressive! The next time I’ll need that special push in life, I’ll wait for the next MLP ‘manifasstration’!

By: Tim Ripard

Tim Ripard — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:24:44 +0000

At least he said ‘demonstration’, not ‘manifestation’, even though his revered leader said it was a ‘national manifestation’, not an MLP one. Maybe he was at the wrong place?