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November 5, 2014 8:00am by Kokila Patel

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Griff

Public screen hog comes up at the bottom and you automatically hit the scroll wheel until the first post after comes up
Once in while you catch a word on the way past but that is it.
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November 5, 2014 7:06pm
Lucia Maria

Tom,

You’re probably right, and therefore the only recourse that blog readers have is to use the down tick feature to hide her comments.

The magic number is 20, I think.

I’ve just gotten the point of annoyance with her. Previously, I’ve just scrolled past. Recently I’ve started down ticking. A few days ago I’d had enough and needed to say something.

If what I’ve been doing fails, I’ll email David Farrar next.
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November 5, 2014 7:07pm
Griff

The hide ceiling has been upped to thirty.
how do I know ?
I noticed three of penny’s screeds got hidden the other day with only one still active at 29.
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November 5, 2014 7:11pm
Nostradamus

Griff:

The hide ceiling has been upped to thirty.

That’s not quite right: the threshold was initially set at, and has always been, -30.

It’s also worth noting that the threshold is based on a net position. So, if a person has 30 downticks and 1 uptick, then their net position is -29, and the comment will still be shown. It would just take one more downtick to change the net position to -30, at which point the comment won’t be shown.

I share Lucia’s frustration. I sometimes read Kiwiblog on my smartphone, and it’s really frustrating to have to scroll past Penny’s lengthy comments. When using a smartphone to read Kiwiblog, it’s much harder work to scroll on by, compared to using a mouse.

As Lucia points out, the obvious solution is for Penny to provide a summary and a supporting cross-reference to her blog – much like Pete George does. Penny’s 3:47pm comment is a classic example of a lengthy comment that could be summarised.
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November 5, 2014 7:19pm
itstricky

itstricky (1,868 comments) says:
November 5th, 2014 at 8:40 am
G152: Who are the Greens that wrecked many National and Act signs, who are the Labour/Green members who coerced elderly and infirm into voting for their part

It’s funny how no Labour signs were defaced and how there were no media reports of National coercing subsets of the population into voting for them, wasn’t it?

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13 people actually think that’s true. Interesting. For the record, Labour and Green billboards were defaced and National were accused of manipulating voters in exactly the way IGM specified. Clearly only three people got the sarcasm. Just goes to show you only see what you want to see.
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November 5, 2014 8:01pm
Johnboy

Thank goodness a jolly nice sheepshagger such as myself hardly ever gets more than 5 downticks from Minus!

I’d be shattered if Lucia reported me! 🙂
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November 5, 2014 8:18pm
Johnboy

“When using a smartphone to read Kiwiblog, it’s much harder work to scroll on by, compared to using a mouse.”

“”””Posing fucking prick Nostra….” 🙂
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November 5, 2014 8:23pm
stigie

“I’d be shattered if Lucia reported me”!

After all the nice things you’ve said about Lucia JB, she would’nt have the heart to report a kind ole sheepshagger such as yourself !~
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November 5, 2014 8:31pm
Johnboy

I can’t believe her legs are as tall as she claims they are stigie?

I wish she’d pop round and show me where they finished! 🙂
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November 5, 2014 8:36pm
stigie

If that claim is correct JB, i would be popping around to check them out myself ?

One would have to be a bit careful though, the husband is probably built like a brick shithouse !!
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November 5, 2014 8:42pm
Rowan

Lucia
Penny is certainly not the sole spam contributor to this blog although she does contribute a significant amount. If we were to remove the contributions of her, Kea, Bigot Blouse, Stupidboy, Michael/Muggins and one or two others KB would be significantly better of!!
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November 5, 2014 8:44pm
Johnboy

Thank goodness my erudite contributions were not included in your wall of shame Rowan!

I feel deeply humbled indeed! 🙂
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November 5, 2014 8:47pm
stigie

Anyone else you can think of Rowan ?
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November 5, 2014 8:49pm
Johnboy

I could of course be one of the “one or two others” perhaps! 🙂
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November 5, 2014 8:49pm
Johnboy

I think Rowan should have condemned you stigie.

You treated Clarkson and the rest of the team like the absolute bastard you obviously are! 🙂
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November 5, 2014 8:51pm
big bruv

Lol, so says Rowan who spams every thread he can with Bain lies.
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November 5, 2014 8:53pm
Johnboy

No bites bb?

Must be busy helping Joe and David at the striped pullover knitting pattern club! 🙂
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November 5, 2014 9:00pm
Rowan

I see anyone who disagrees with the delusional opinions and ramblings of bigot blouse is obviously a “liar”
Blouse, this is a blog where commentators share their opinions, your opinion is not “factual”, and you have not contributed a single supporting fact to support your stance, get over it and get yourself some professional help!!
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November 5, 2014 9:19pm
Nookin

So, penny, in her customary in-your-face fashion, splats everywhere and all of a sudden people are compiling ban lists. She will be back tomorrow boasting how she cleaned up a corrupt KB GD and her Occupy Kiwiblog campaign worked a treat.
Some simple rules:
1. No cut and paste if avoidable. Links are good. Pasting a self-penned leter is not proof of its content.
2. All posting during an election campaign is election advertising for which there is a fee.
3. Sign-off does not need to be more than one line, if at all.
4.ad hom derision is trolling and triggers sanction.
5. Gloating is not debating, especially when there is nothing to gloat about.
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November 5, 2014 9:25pm
stigie

I think Rowan could be Minus JB ?
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November 5, 2014 9:26pm
Griff

I think rowan needs a bianity post.
So him and the rest of the kindy kids can play
Out from under the feet of the adults.
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November 5, 2014 9:35pm
Rowan

Maybe we should add Gripp to that list!
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November 5, 2014 9:39pm
Rowan

Blouse
“Spamming the thread with lies” would be your fellow Mason clinic escapees “Muggins” and “Stupidboy”
You however wouldn’t have the balls to post anything other than cowardly baseless allegations from behind a keyboard and a pseudonymn, this is just trolling, get a life!
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November 5, 2014 9:44pm
Nostalgia-NZ

As a regular conversationalist with Penny, Nookin, any points that you’re trying to make?
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November 5, 2014 9:58pm
Nostalgia-NZ

Well that’s fair enough Nookin. Like to comment on the Pora case then? Looks like a very advanced decision coming down the line.
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November 5, 2014 10:09pm
Sponge

If Penny Bright really thinks that downticks are a result of people reading and, after thought, disagreeing with her posts she is even more batshit mad than I thought. And that is saying something!
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November 5, 2014 10:15pm
Nookin

I have not folowed the Pora case particularly closely, Nos NZ. The two points made by Krebs could well have made a difference to a jury’s decision. Did he retract the confession at either trial? I gather that his impairment was known at the time but not the condition that made him anxious to please. Much depends, I guess, on how altogether new the evidence was.

As far as Penny is concerned, it irritates me that she claims undue credit, esp on legal issues, when it is undeserving. The occupy Auckland case is a classic case in point. She isn’t here to debate, inform or learn. She is here to splatter and throw her jaundiced view of the world all over the screen. The very sad thing is that deep down there are valid issues at large and her aggro approach does not do them justice. There are environment societies like that. Extreme, unyielding, wont negotiate and take issues far too far but without them we would be in a bit of a bloody mess. Itake take tahe view that a much more conciliatory, problem solving approach works best which is why Penny’s confrontational, adversial approach really pisses me off (to use a technical term).
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November 5, 2014 10:35pm
Kea

” I’ll email David Farrar next.”

Even the worst crims treat narks with contempt. No one likes them and no one trusts them. Even those who use the nark for information loathe them.

It is very instructive to compare the level of intellectual dishonesty [of the nark] with its frequency of emailing DPF.
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