I have noticed that u guys are locking, deleting threads without any kind of consultation. This is not fair and i believe nairaland should be a place where people can fairly express their opinion without the fear of site administrators. I hope this site doesn't become a mini Iran.

For Example

Why was below thread locked -

Nigerians: The Happiest People And The Most Stupid

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-289776.0.html

meself i dont see any reason why it was locked!

this thread should be locked for good

seriously

u no dey fear

I read the article on Nigeriavillagesquare.com yesterday and I wonder why it is considered offensive here.

This just goes to confirm what the article says. Only stupid people will deny their own stupidity when confronted. I weep for nigerians.

Tudór:

This just goes to confirm what the article says. Only stupid people will deny their own stupidity when confronted. I weep for nigerians.

sharapppp jor wat do u know about nigerians

desgiezd:

I read the article on Nigeriavillagesquare.com yesterday and I wonder why it is considered offensive here.

maybe its too intellectual for nairaland(its only seun or whoever locked the thread that can tell us tho!)

Am afraid to talk, for I've had just been. . .

This thread will soon be locked.

Just read the article using the link on the original post.

Doesn't seem offensive to me, only stating what any right thinking person knows. The statement that "The Igbos and the Ijaws are probably the ones that have been most rebellious , " surely hasn't been taken as a call to war or has it?

I'm baffled that even Seun (assuming he's the one being referred to here) posted a response to the post before it was locked. Hopefully Nairaland is independent of the Nigerian government, churches and mosques?

Topics are getting locked, modify button ain't working, people are getting banned for spurious reasons etc. I wanted to respond to that topic, i think the writer made good points but he insulted the collective intelligence of Nigerians.

Topics are getting locked, modify button ain't working, people are getting banned for spurious reasons etc. I wanted to respond to that topic, i think the writer made good points but he insulted the collective intelligence of Nigerians.

I dey Wonder If Seun dey drink Beer dey come Nairaland

OneNaija:

I dey Wonder If Seun dey drink Beer dey come Nairaland

I wonder too -

Richy - we need answers or regulations.

Moderation is biased on nairaland. Anyone who says otherwise is probably not seeing the bigger picture. Take politics here for example, you have a few people who are constantly derailing threads, bickering and not actually contributing to the thread at hand. Those who for ever posting news link without living a comment or their own opinion etc. Yet there appears to be no active moderation to mop up this sort of post, or remove the offending user.

There aren't any set or well defined rules governing the forum ettiqutte here, or the art of debating. Even RichyBlack is guilty sometimes of being inactive and doing nothing to make this place a better place.

Oh before anyone come running telling "use the report to moderator button" I would urge people not to bother! I used this in the past, and the offending post was never removed. Instead my account was banned on the pretence that I posted "a spam type of post"! Yeah, that is what I get for trying to clean up this place.

Moderation should be given to people who can actually set a standard and make this place a better place. Not just friends and "paddies" who would be biased and can't be bothered to actually moderate.

So i am not the only one that this is affecting?I have been banned two times in the last two days because i posted this particular article and another article from saharareporters.com in which the title was "There would be no REVOLUTION in nigeria".The two times i was banned the reason was that i posted a SPAM.

asha 3:

So i am not the only one that this is affecting?I have been banned two times in the last two days because i posted this particular article and another article from saharareporters.com in which the title was "There would be no REVOLUTION in nigeria".The two times i was banned the reason was that i posted a SPAM.

hehehehe. . . . .I never thought Asha 2 the pacifist would get banned. . .

I guess spam is a blanket word the moderators/admin/seun use so as to escape from giving a genuine reason in the first place.

y'all know we're technically asking for trouble here. . .lol

we're starting our own e-revolution

I hope this has nothing to do with Yaradua's resolve to fight bloggers

Who knows may be he has been bought by the federal goverment too

Surely someone's got to be able to proffer a reason for locking the thread.

I heard that it was the culture section that was horrible. I didn't realise that it also extends to the politics section.

asha 3:

I hope this has nothing to do with Yaradua's resolve to fight bloggers

Na. . . . if so, I would have been banned long time. . . . I think you were banned cos of some software schismo that interpreted your post as spam. . . . its an auto-ban function, meaning there was no human involvement.

Ibime:

Na. . . . if so, I would have been banned long time. . . . I think you were banned cos of some software schismo that interpreted your post as spam. . . . its an auto-ban function, meaning there was no human involvement.

Ok.Make i carry fear gree.

This is cowardise at best. Yesterday alone, 5 of my comments was deleted for just no reason. Perhaps the ower of this site has received the 20million naira from the nigerian govt. which some have been speculating here.

@Justgood
Add religion section to that mix. . .

@buffead
you drunkard! I'm nigerian!

netotse:

y'all know we're technically asking for trouble here. . .lol

we're starting our own e-revolution

Asking for what? Oh please. This is nairaland and as such what is the worst that can happen? Gosh you get banned. Simple.

Eventually, when everyone is banned, I am sure this forum would drop of the radar On top of that, the registration process is so lax that one can have multiple identities around here. So banning some one is just pointless.

There is nothing hard in giving a proper reasons as to why a thread is locked. Employing autobots to do the job of human around here just goes to show how much the moderators/seun are bothered about actually doing any work.

what is this doing in the politics section

dominique:

what is this doing in the politics section

How hard is it to read a single page of thread?

ElRazur:

How hard is it to read a single page of thread?

how does that answer the question let me rephrase the question, what has this got to do with politics

Are you blind?

Tudór:

Are you blind?

are you daft . . .why am i even asking, ofcourse you are