Comments on: Deleted Posts on Chowhound

By: Curmudgeon

Curmudgeon — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:47:18 +0000

It sort of astounds me what is censored on Chowhound. Recently I’ve had postings about concern over using food ingredients from China and displeasure about the long lines at my local TJs and their discontinuation of stoned wheat thins censored. Once you’ve been censored once I think you go on a hot list and they carefully discriminate against everyone of your postings. The SF hounds have a picnic each year and this year the Chowhound Community Manager Jacquilynne Schleisier flew down from Toronto to attend. I had a chance to talk to her and what a piece of work! While food is obviously her main main interest (see the photo http://www.ample-knitters.com/jacquilynne.html ) She also talked about going on cruises with her parents. On her blog she talks about her thoughts about her main interest http://www.jacquilynne.com/mt/mt-static/diet/reasons_why/ I hope this gives some consolation to those of you who have been censored.

By: SauceSupreme

SauceSupreme — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:25:50 +0000

Believe me, I’ve had more than my share of posts deleted. Talking with other long time ‘Hounds, they have a common experience. I say it just goes with the territory, and it helps to have another outlet. I never really bothered to get too worked up about it because a) it’s still the best resource on the web and b) I have my own blog to post thoughts and c) I keep off-line contact with ‘Hounds whose palates I trust.

By: dolores

dolores — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 12:36:22 +0000

Fascinating, banned almost a year ago to the date. Deja vu all over again. The Nazis at Chowhound banned me once again, this time for trying to note that $500. for dinner for two at a restaurant in a suburb of NY is outrageous.

The Nazis at chowhound then did NOT have the courtesy to tell me why they banned me for this, other than the fact that they ‘could’.

Putzes, the entire lot of them.

By: stefankib

stefankib — Tue, 01 May 2007 15:01:28 +0000

Yes, I was new in Chowhound, who wanted to make popular a certain type of cuisine and they deleted every post of mine, I just posted once a link:www.findbgfood.com and after that every my innocent post was deleted.

By: bulavinaka

bulavinaka — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 03:51:07 +0000

I’m relatively new to Chowhound, and blogging in general for that matter. I tend to feel towards how most of you feel about how heavy-handed the “minders” or “Chowhound Ministry of Censorship” can be. I use these euphemisms because the sense that I get is that we are attempting to exchange our thoughts and information in a very social way - like in the spirit of the First Amendment. Just as some of these posts start to pick up speed, one notices that a fair amount of editing has occured. I rub my eyes and ask myself, “Geez, are we living in the good ol’ U-S-of-A, or did I just do a timeshift behind the Iron Curtain or Singapore(at least the food is great there)? However, after giving it some thought, I do have to keep in mind that I am a guest on that site, and I need to play by their rules. I don’t know what it was like pre-CNET, but like many other “little fish swallowed by the bigger fish” tales, the rules change, and things tend to tail towards the lower realm of common denominators. My guess would be that the bigger fishes are probably being told by the legal dept that liability issues may arise from certain types of comments. Maybe we need to start trying other food blogs? If anyone knows of any comparables, are they allowed to be reccomended?

By: dolores

dolores — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:56:41 +0000

Christian, did they even delete your blog?

By: dolores

dolores — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:55:00 +0000

How nice to find this site and to see there are others who have been victim to arbitrary censorship. I just had my posts deleted and then my registration banned because I didn’t agree with the moderators. Meanwhile, they did not once update me with a nice little note as to why they kept deleting my posts.

Funny thing is, they must hover over the site 24X7, because the minute I would post my opinion about a particularly odious restaurant, they would delete my post.

My, my, and here I thought this was the 21st century.

My bad. Heavy handed censorship is alive and well in America. Oh, and they even delete posts at a blog they apparently run.

By: Chubbypanda

Chubbypanda — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:41:07 +0000

Jonah,

Welp, I’m late but I got here. Managed to get myself kicked out of Chowhound by finally refusing to censor myself.

http://epicurious-wanderer.blogspot.com/2006/12/chowhound-board-nazis-conclusion.html

Here’s my question to the blogosphere at large. If the “Chowhound Team” won’t let food bloggers and lover refer other board members to restaurants they really like, what’s left? How many posts about Cube, Mozza, or Jar can Chowhound members take before they move on to blogs like this one for truly meaty fare?

- Chubbypanda

http://www.chubbypanda.com

By: Jef

Jef — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 06:14:40 +0000

Not to dredge this topic up from the past but …

Now that chowhound is part of cnet, the deletion thing has gone
absolutely nuts. There are more posts being deleted than staying
up, it seems. What the heck could be going on?

By: Christian

Christian — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 06:27:44 +0000

So, I am finding that others have had similar problems. I have a post about it here:

http://ocmexfood.blogspot.com/2006/04/chowhound-gestapo.html

After their craziness I wondered if maybe somehow I was a “bad person” who just didn’t know how to get along with others but it really is just a defect with how their whole site is run and that probably stems from some sort of personality defect(s) on the part of the people in charge there.