“David why can you not remain neutral in this? The fact that

Comment on Reasons to Vote British National Party by David.

“David why can you not remain neutral in this? The fact that you’re an admin kind of undermines the whole point of this since you can move and delete comments at will.”

I’ve explained my position so many times I might just make a copy and paste comment for every time a BNP supporters asks why I’m not unbiased about the BNP etc…

Do you own any websites or involved in moderating comments Jaymie?

Would you as a BNP supporter sit by and let commenter’s trash the BNP and say nothing?

Based on many pro BNP commenter’s comments if they moderated this site they’d delete all of Vote No To BNPs comments and he makes some of the better comments here, both about and not about the BNP.

I agree with Vote No To BNP, the vast majority of BNP commenter’s here can’t handle him in reasoned debate and resort to distracting name calling and trying to drive comments to about him not using his real name, which is completely irrelevant. I don’t care if he’s David Cameron on his days off, his comments are still interesting, I also don’t care if the name you’ve posted under is real or not. It’s the value of a persons comments that’s of interest to me: other than when you create posts like these, yours are worth debating with as well Jaymie.

I understand the moderators of the BNP website regularly deletes anti-BNP comments that ask difficult questions (like those asked here), if I had that approach (deleting pro BNP comments) BNP supporters would scream foul play and call me undemocratic and against free speech (they’d be right as well if I did that).

Why is it acceptable for BNP officials to delete anti-BNP comments, curtailing free speech on the BNP website, but I can’t post anti-BNP comments on my own site?

Why are the BNP website moderators not neutral, by your argument it undermines the whole point of the BNP website having comments open if they are only going to allow pro BNP comments through?

In comparison I’ve let through around 99% of pro BNP comments, (99% of all comments) based on this comparing my general election site to the BNP site, which supports free speech and the democratic process?

At least I try to be fair, interesting comments no matter what the subject matter will not be deleted.

You can not seriously expect me as a personal website owner to not get involved on my own site, especially as the whole point of having open comments is to generate interesting debate.

Only BNP supporters seem to think my site is some sort of public property, it’s not, it’s mine. This is not an altruistic project (that’s consuming a lot of my time!), I want to get something out of it: interesting political debate and learn more about politics and maybe persuade some 2005 general election Labour voters to continue to vote Labour (the latter of which is going sooo well :-)).

I can not dictate what visitors to my site want to discuss, I try to guide discussions via new articles at times (National Minimum wage and the Islam4UK march articles for example), but I can’t force anyone NOT to comment on particular subjects (beyond deleting good comments which I will not do, worst case scenario is I move a comment thread to a relevant article).

BTW I’ve added a new plugin that when a visitor uses the search function at the top of the site it now searches comments as well. Doesn’t link right to a comment, so not perfect, but better than just searching the main articles.

I honestly didn’t think it would be so much about the BNP when I decided to make this site**, expected the sort of response Green Party supporters give, the odd comment now and a again, but discussing the BNP is what my current commenting visitors want to discuss.

** I create a lot of sites on what you might call a whim, no planning, basically “that might be a good idea for a site, an hour later I’ve bought a new domain and installed WordPress etc… and made a couple of starting articles”. Many are in the “added a couple of articles stage a year plus later and that’s it” like http://virtual-light.com/ and others like this site interest me and get a lot more of my time.

David