Comments on: State Department’s DipNote

By: Dipnote Bloggers

Dipnote Bloggers — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:02:23 +0000

@ joe in dc — Hi from Dipnote! Thanks for your comments about the State Department’s new blog. When developing the blog, we actually incorporated some of the Library of Congress’ comment policies into our own. As you mentioned, Dipnote is essentially an open forum. Only posts that are clearly spam, contain vulgarity, or contain gratuitous links are not allowed. Other than that, it’s entirely open. The blog respects all points of view and encourages a free and open discussions.

By: joe in dc

joe in dc — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:40:04 +0000

Are the comments moderated at all? They must delete things that are spam or filled with cursing. I like the common-sense policy that the Library of Congress uses on their blog:

“This blog is governed by the general rules of respectful civil discourse. You are fully responsible for everything that you post. The content of all comments is released into the public domain unless clearly stated otherwise. The Library of Congress does not control the content posted. Nevertheless, the Library of Congress may monitor any user-generated content as it chooses and reserves the right to remove content for any reason whatever, without consent. Gratuitous links to sites are viewed as spam and may result in removed comments. We further reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to remove a user’s privilege to post content on the Library site.”

By: contentious.com - links for 2007-10-11

contentious.com - links for 2007-10-11 — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:24:36 +0000

[...] State Department’s DipNote » The Bivings Report “Surprising: The blog actually allows comments. And they don’t appear to be censored. After a quick scan of the comments on several posts, I realized that both positive comments and comments critical of the State Dept. or US govt are freely flowing.” (tags: tidbits+fodder blogs government comments conversational+media) [...]

By: 1389

1389 — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 03:41:46 +0000

On http://blogs.state.gov/ (DipNote), I commented on the post about whether the Palestinians should have a state and whether the US should participate in that. I said NO, very adamantly, giving many reasons why not. I also left an intensely scathing remark about the depredations that the US State Department was responsible for in Kosovo. We’ll see if the moderator lets that one through.

By: velvethammer

velvethammer — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:33:51 +0000

I do not have a question for now. Just a comment. First I would like to know if questions are responded to at all (as 1389 has asked). Otherwise why bother.

Color me curious

By: Cristy Li

Cristy Li — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:05:55 +0000

Really interesting but who is reading this Site? 1389 asked that question, waiting for a reply.

By: 1389

1389 — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:47:37 +0000

The real question is not whether the US State Department blog allows comments, but whether anyone in a position of power – or even influence – actually reads those comments.