Must admit to occasionally posting on there but what is with the bunch of d!ck5 that abuse each on there. It makes us lot look like members of mensa!

i do often read the comments. but i just laugh at them. instead of talking about the actual topic,they just go off track completely asif its a competition as to who can get the last dig in at each other. pathetic!

I only ever read them if I am interested in the article (very rarely tbh), there are some rather disturbed individuals on there but amazingly some also come on here with the same name...cemetarygates is one, enough said

You mean such as the second post under tonight's preview of the BAE redundancies

"Mostly Hull FC fans I hope"

The anonymity the internet affords such as 'dexter texter' is a 'Nobheads Charter' I'm afraid.

I find them a bit depressing to be honest.

Is so annoying. You start reading a reasonable debate and them idiots come on and just argue betwee themselves. I give up as soon as it starts because it comes off thread and is just an argument between them.

They should be deleted from the site.

Never mind, have you noticed most of them are KR fans, or so they say they are.

Obviously havent got much else to do with their lives than sit at a computer all day long.

Sad eh

Would love to meet them face to face and see if they were so lippy then lol

while it wasn't ever a masterpiece the website has really gone down the pan since its 're-vamp'

how hard is it to have the news articles run in newest to oldest order? and I'm not interested in the 'user submitted' stories either, if I wanted to read the public's comments I'd read a forum like this or a blog.

I think they should just disable the ability to comment on the stories as soon as it descends into a bun fight, its just embarrassing cringe worthy reading at times.

Although it does make quite amusing reading on the odd "article"...

Everybody seems to be one bloke called Eddie

Some on here are.

If they just deleted comments that were off topic it would soon stop the idiots. I must admit to chuckling at times at some of the comments though.

If its any consolation, we have just the same problem on our local paper's equivilent - what I call the "T&A Rantaboard". Its driven the majority of responsible posters away, and those who are responsible that DO post on there tend not to post on RLFans. We also have one or two [iagents provocateur[/i - including the odd name that, if known, would probably shock a few people. Usually best avoided, tbh.

I am always surprised when they allow comments on any story involving Colin Inglis. It is usually at best three posts before something libellous is posted.

They put a story in abit ago about him not using the Lord Mayors electric car or something and some of the comments posted left me looking almost identical to this

"By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. "
[iOscar Wilde[/i

The sports comments are just purile, they make this place look like the Oxford debating society. The news pages comments sometimes can be amusing, I think the HDM deliberately trolls their users with stories about ASBO kids and the like, I always have a bet with myself how many comments I think those stories will get. The one time, when my daughters school went into special measures there was a really good discussion about between parents I found productive, then someone mentioned the s and they deleted all the comments and closed it