To think that the Daily Fail are deliberately not allowing people to make comments on this article?

[Lauriefairycake]

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which then cynically leads me to believe that they let people make comments on the ones that slag off female bodies/immigrants/asylum seekers/bad neighbours as they are happy to let racist/misogynistic claptrap stand on their website ?

as I am quite sure that given the tone of the nasty comments usually on that site that the revolting readership would have been posting comments all day saying "good" "comeuppance" etc etc.

That news story has been up all day and there is not one comment.

Laurie, it's the Mail what do you expect.

To my shame, I saw this earlier (must not read DM, must not read DM, repeat ad infinitum), and it did have lots of comments along the lines of 'Oh good, hope the quad bike wasn't too scratched', which would be charming for the families of those concerned. They've obviously since been pulled.

Presumably the DM has some kind of taste & decency standards, even if not particularly high ones!

YAdefinatelyNBU - The Daily Mail do this all the time. They only print the comments they want you to see

the link doesn't work for me :(

OP - why are you on that site in the first place?

The Daily Mail don't allow you to comment if it is aimed at their shoddy reporting, bigoted articles with one very biased side. You can only comment if you are brain dead enough to believe it.

They took the comments down out of respect for the dead criminals.

That popped your bubble, didnt it?

Could it be that sometimes articles referring to trials or ongoing police investigations can't be commented on? The two surviving quad bikers are yet to be tried.

lol @ daily fail

I remember this from when it originally happened, there was no mention of the two men being engaged in criminal activities then - just factual reporting that it had happened. There were definitly comments at that time and they were a mixture of negative ones and RIP type ones.

I think emo76 is right, it could be for legal reasons or maybe respect for the dead if they were all negative.

They moderate comments anyway before they put them up (mine never seem to get through).
So don't see why they need to deliberately stop people posting them.

Think they often make it so that people can't comment if a trial/inquest/whatever is still ongoing or yet to take place.

As ccpccp said, if there was some less than favourable comments relating to the men that died then it's only reasonable they take them down imo. They broke the law and did bad things but really they're dead now. What's the point of slagging them off now?

And this being the Daily Hate, I bet there were loads of comments about what nice, upstanding citizens those guys were.

What a vile piece of shite this excuse for a paper is. I feel offended just seeing it in the newsagents.