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Gentle Giant Blog Comments Disabled and Deleted
— July 16, 2007 Leave a Comment
Gentle Giant announced on their blog today that they are disabling the ability to comment on their blog for an undefined period of time. This was undoubtedly due to all the comments that were left containing profanity and directly insulting Gentle Giant employees after last week’s San Diego Comic Con exclusives pre-order.
If you ask me, those comments were out of line, but I bet that Gentle Giant was happy to take away blog comments due to the fact that all the Collector’s Club and Premiere Guild members that were bashing them on a daily basis. The reason I say this is that not only did they stop allowing members to leave comments, they also removed all the previous comments from the blog.
The new blog launched when their site relaunched at the beginning of this year. They did not have comments at first but soon added the ability to comment if you joined the Collector’s Club or Premiere Guild and were logged in to the site. So those members have been leaving comments since the beginning of the year, and Gentle Giant just removed them all. Some would call that censorship. From Gentle Giant’s point of view, it is their blog, and they can do what they want with it.
The ability to interact with Gentle Giant is listed on their site as one of the benefits of being a Premiere Guild member and it’s also listed as being one of the benefits of the Collector’s club. So what is Gentle Giant going to do now? Either they have to take those benefits off the list or come up with another way to offer that ability.
If they do add comments in or some other form of communication in the future, I hope they are able to moderate it more than they did this time.
Here at the Unofficial Gentle Giant Blog we encourage comments. In fact, I just wrote a post earlier today asking for your comments. Also, if you are going to the San Diego Comic Con, why not tell Gentle Giant what you think about deleting the comments from their blog.
