How well used is the Observer website?
 

I may well moan about the quality of the stories in the Observer, but it is still an essential purchase each week.

What puzzles me though is the weekly feature as to what's being said on it's website.

Each and every week there is a comment by Stacey Everett, Oswaldtwistle. She being the butty shop owner who went to the press after a teacher marched pupils out of her shop, when they should have been at school.

If the comments made any sense, or indeed exhibited a modicum of wit, they might be worthy of being reprinted. She informed us last week that she can't wait to leave this country. Perhaps we'll soon be informed when and where.

To me it seems like the barrel is being scraped, and poor Stacey is all they can find when they've scraped.

I occasionally read the website, but have never felt to join Ms. Everett in leaving a comment, has anyone else felt the urge to join her?

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never looked at it, might well have done if it was still a good paper. the " Butty Shops" bin fer sale a while now.

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That 'anon' guy gets a lot of coverage too.

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It almost makes me wish for the return of the loathed 'grumpy old man' column, they replaced Gayle's with.

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Think a lot of ex-pats use the site, it is a good way for them to keep up to date on news from home:)

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I'll subscribe to that.:hehetable

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Just checked out her comment this week on Paddy, our local street cleaner, handing back a large amount of money dropped in the street.

She was the only comment on this story .. so not well used is it ?

Have done a couple myself, but to no avail.:( Don't think they enter enough stories from each publication.

Hey, just noticed re. the story of the guy 'Date my Dad Failure' .. story of his first date ... a website comment in the Observer this week from 'Anon' "He picked sausage and mash for a first date. How did he think the date would end ?".
If you go into the website .. this comment was made by Stacey Everett. Looks like they are embarrassed by publishing too many of her comments. :D

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Yes, this is true Bernie. When I visited my friends in Spain earlier last month, tried to tell them about local news, and they proclaimed proudly that they had already seen it on the web.

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Where are you finding the comments section on the website ?

Usually check the site out to see if I know anyone who is dead . Think it's reasonable not to expect a full on-line version , would mean a complete loss of revenue, but for a small local rag its not a bad web-site and provides a good link for folks who live out of the circulation area or overseas :D :D

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You just have to go into each article Steeljack .. go to the bottom and it invites you to submit a comment or view any already entered.

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Thanks Kate , got it figured out , thought it was a separate section .;)

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I have the obituaries on my favourites list, so I can go right to the page. or I go to the ex pats comments.

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Well in comperison with the LT it's a waste of space, never seems to be up-to-date, when I've been on, but anyway I get the Obs every week, so I tend not to bother with the web site now.

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The LT's comments section is awful, some of the comments people put on there are disgusting and it is not moderated well enough, think they just rely on reports being made.

Haven't checked the Obby one but will take a look now, but had noticed the Stacey Everett thing in the paper, where they print the web comments.
Surely they can't be that low on website comments they have to use hers every week, or maybe they think her name will attract attention to the article.

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Wasn't just talking about the comments section cazzer, just the web site in gerneral, its update regularly (all the items a ime stamped ) with the Obs they don't seem to update until well after publication.

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The Telegraph site will be updated more frequently because it's a daily paper, as opposed to the Observer, which is weekly.

I quite see the logic of not updating websites straight away, when you're in the business of selling newspapers. Saying that the Observer's site is usually very good...it's just the reprinting of the same person's comments, which gets on my goat.

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Well there is an answer Rindi, we'l all have to start going on and posting comments and see if that makes an difference.:rolleyes:

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You will be able to see how censored they are as well :rolleyes:

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Hurrah!

After weeks and weeks, if not months, this weekend's edition of the Observer has no comments from it's website from Ms. Everett.

Thank you.:)

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Not many comments this week, some are from previous weeks stories, maybe the NAME AND ADDRESS SUPPLIED is her.

Hey, but you just have to read the comment on the website from the Hyndburn Honeys story last week ... I await your mirth... :D

Yummy mummy is hottest Honey - News - Accrington Observer

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Lol, I saw that.

It's sweet he thinks she 'always luk gud and u shud be proud'.

Perhaps we should have an Observer txt spkr of the yr cmp.:D

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No, you missed the point ... was the 'shows your natural self' bit that amused me. :D:D

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Oh, I missed that, not being bitchy myself.;)

:D

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Bit of a backhanded compliment. :D

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Well, she's back :-

am looking forward to the following weeks.Thanks observer.
stacey everett, oswaldtwistle
21/10/2008 at 19:02

Comment against the Hyndburn Hunks feature. Let's see if this profound comment will make it to print ... :D

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For some one who likes to have their say, regularly, I wonder why she hasn't joined the throng on here, maybe she can't stand being pulled to pieces:rolleyes:

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Maybe she is already a member ;)

I am saying nowt :eek:

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You haven't been using pen names writting to the Obs have you Neil:rolleyes:

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It did, as well as that other literary nugget about how gud the huni winna was.

Not really the hard hitting comments to make anyone look at the website. More likely wonder at the failure of the education system.

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Not guilty, I have informed another member about her identity though. I will keep the rest of you guessing :D

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If thats so and she is Observers bigest subscriber, she ain't tried to defend herself on her has she:rolleyes:

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There's nothing to defend.

My gripe is that there must be a lack of other commenters, to keep using the same person's.

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Well one of our members has started to post comments.

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:signntme::signntme::signntme::signntme::signntme: :signntme:

and you already know I never lie

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We all know your the paragon of thruth Margaret:D

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Fair enough Rindi but when there was plenty of stick flying about the teacher dragging the kids out of the shop, can't remember much being said then:confused: