Dorset Echo News Online - Weymouth & Dorchester

Following on from their not liking comments made by anonymous users (i.e. those not sticking to one name) or not liking the contents of such comments and thereby deleting them, the Dorset Echo News online version (mainly covering Weymouth and Dorchester areas) has now changed things so that nobody can post a comment to any article unless they become a registered member! How ludicrous is that? The result is that hardly any comments are being posted and debate is non-existant.

Such a pedantic editor/moderator has killed off what was a thriving online community in which many Dorset people took part. But it's not just that, there were people from other parts of the UK and from abroad who posted too. Sometimes it was the topic rather than the locality that inspired them to post, so they are not likely to sign up.

A great loss in many respects. Maybe we should call for the editor/moderator to be sacked?

There is a solution, whereby anyone could post comments about news articles without fear of their posts being moderated to the extreme and with no need to sign up as a member. So, does anyone know enough about php to help me get a forum (linked into the existing ones on weymouth-dorset.co.uk but not yet visible) across onto another domain I have?

Please note: you do not have to sign up to post to this blog!