About Visit Scunthorpe
Visit Scunthorpe started out life many years ago around 1995 when I first started developing web sites and set up my "home page" to post messages and thoughts about what I was doing for friends to see.
Little know to me at the time, this was a phenomena which was to become known as Blogging. Now obviously when I first heard about blogging I thought that it was a bit naff, and then suddenly realised that it was something I'd been doing for years.
I decided eventually to register VisitScunthorpe.Com as a domain name as Scunthorpe is where I was born and have lived most of life, and wanted to help reflect the town in a positive manner.
My objectives are very straight forward:
- To report regional news in an independent manner, positively reflecting the town in a style which is in keeping with the socio-political context of the town.
- To provide a facility by which other people with links to the region could publish their own headlines (as opposed to just leaving comments on articles).
Moderation, rules and boring bits
How do we deal with moderation? All articles can be commented, if enough people complain and select the "Please remove this article" option then we'll have a look at it, read the comments left by those complaining and we will remove it.Reasons for removal will be limited to infringement of copyright by subscribers, Legal requirements or any form of incitement to violence be it racial, religious or otherwise deemed offensive. To date all members have used common sense with the posts, and as long as this continues, the facility for members of the public to post on the site will remain. Informed discussion is always welcomed, but VisitScunthorpe.Com will not be used as a platform for any form of hate politics or the victimisation of groups or individuals.
