Unarguable, Nairaland is the most visited Nigerian owned site and a lot of commendation should go to the founder of the site for his vision.

Quite a number of Nigerians depend on Nairaland not only for news stories but the reaction of Nigerians to those stories.

As an open platform it is very democratic and the problem with that is control.

In other to control the kind of information that can appear on the site the moderators have decided to insert a software that will automatically change certain words into more decent sounding ones.

Certain words are not allowed on the site: For instance, “penis” becomes “joystick” and “Porn” becomes “indecency”.

I found it quite hilarious when I saw a post on “Bosom Cancer”! Seriously? Even the word, “breast” cannot be used on the site.

It gets even more ridiculous, “Retard” becomes “slowpoke”. Whoever coined the word, “slowpoke”?

What these moderators have to realise is that these words are proper English words and removing them from a story or a post simply changes the essence of that story.

There are other ways to properly monitor a site.

The interesting thing is that this type of editing is definitely software operated and should you want to beat the software put an dot (.) in front of each word, like this, “p.e.n.i.s.” and you get your word published but you just may incur the wrath of the moderators.

Like most leading institutions in Nigeria, Nairaland is being managed by ignorant, lazy, self-serving individuals who think they have been put in charge of a service because they are cleverer than the people using that service.

Who’s Paying Attention To Ann Coulter Anyway ?

Ann Coulter is a lawyer turned journalist who feels good about herself by putting other people down.

She attempts to drag other people down to the only place she is quite familiar with: the gutter.

She broke into global consciousness when she called Obama a “retard” after one of the Presidential debates the President had with Mitt Romney.

One would except someone who calls herself a lawyer to at least have some respect for a colleague who is also an associate professor of constitutional Law. Come to think of it, she sees other people with her own lenses and that is the way she sees lawyers. She probably believes you have to be a retard like herself to qualify to become a lawyer.

Ann Coulter picks on Hispanics without verifying the facts.

She said Hispanics would automatically vote Democrats forgetting that Marco Rubio and Senator Cruz are both Hispanics who also happen to be Republican Party Senators.

After almost every notion she has about Hispanics turned out to be false so she decided to turn on Nigerians.

Apparently, she must have been picking on Hispanics because she thought they were the only non-whites in the world.

I’m she’s convinced the likes of Kanye West and Beyonce were dark skinned Hispanics who migrated to the US from the remotest parts of the Amazon.

She probably thought America, Canada and Europe were the only countries in the world. It must have been tough convincing her that Europe wasn’t a country. (What? With the whole of the EU having a President and stuff?)

Whoever told Ann about Africa hasn’t educated her but has done us Africans a great disservice and possibly given Hispanics a respite.

In my opinion, Ann should be ignored. We Nigerians had no business republishing the hurtful things she said about Nigerians.

I wonder what she would have to say when she discovers that there are at least fifty other countries besides Nigeria in Africa.