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WTF.

Let me start with the constructive offer. People from IDG, especially miss Maltzeva, I’m offering you my services in exchange for two beers (the time it will take me) to set up a normal discussion system for you. Your current one can be shortly described as “shit with gunpowder” – there’s no moderation option, no way to separate the main discussion and the questions from other people and it uses an extremely crappy technology. Georgi Chorbadzhiyski has described perfectly the idea, and I have no problems implementing it for you… The only reason your current system has worked is the low attendance of those discussions.
(I just sent one email to Maria Maltzeva with the same offer)

And why I got so mad…

I got into the discussion from the beginning, but stayed until the moment in which Yavor Kolev sais that not his department has handled the case. I saw no reason for him to get involved in the discussion itself as we all know his technical and other abilities (e.g. the lack of those).

Also it was visible that there’s no way to normalize the discussion, something that happens in the so-called chat of IDG. In the torrents discussion some time ago it was also hard to see the answers from the questions. I have no idea why anyone there might think that a web chat is something good, as most such systems that I’ve seen are 1) ugly, 2) badly written, 3) thankfully, dead.

And after reading the WTF that’s linked in the beginning, the following sentence floated:
(my translation)
“Today’s discussion, with all the harassment and unrestrained words, for me showed the answer for the question in the opic – yes, we need censorship [of Internet].”

I confess, I felt bad. It’s shameful for a journalist to say that there’s need for censorship. It’s idiotic for a journalist in an IT publication to say that there’s need for Internet censorship, it shows a total misunderstanding of the matter – the technical side is a horror (even the Chinese aren’t handling it well), and the juridical part can feed a lot of lawyers for some generations, and damn, we’ve had enough censorship in our country, do we really need more? There are reasons for a journalist to say this – like the fear that Internet as a medium can make them obsolete – but I’ll refrain from assumptions…

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