I’ve been moderated again. The Guardian has deleted yet another of my comments from its blog site.

Fry oh Fry
I made the comment after reading a piece by Stephen Fry on the newspaper’s Digital Content blog.

The Living Saint was complaining about offensive comments and tweets on blogs and Twitter.

He said: “Their resentment, their desire to be heard at the most vituperative level, at the most unpleasant and malevolent, genuinely ill-willed malevolent, level is terrifying.”

Fry not
Englands’ Premier Wit, you’ll recall, was so upset at the treatment meted out to him (a tweet actually described him as boring) that he quit Twitter for good.

Well, for a week or so, anyway.

Fry indeed
Some may think his case is rather undermined by his reaction to Jan Moir’s column on the Daily Mail web site about the death of pop star Stephen Gately. He tweeted:

“I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathsome and inhumane”.

Class act
Yes, it oozes class – upper class in fact. But it’s not what you’d call moderate, is it?

Second-class post
Anyway, to get to my post. I read the piece and wrote the following:

This article should have been removed by a moderator. Comments should also have been deleted.
We mustn’t – simply mustn’t – risk upsetting Stephen.

Fell at the first offence
When I went to reread it (as one does..), I was shocked and appalled to see the following:

This comment has been removed by a moderator. Replies may also be deleted.

Maybe they were being funny.

Then again, the Guardian isn’t known for its sense of humour.

So … nuff not said.