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Anonymous commenting. Bring it back?

larry horse's picture
Submitted by larry horse on Thu, 2009-04-09 19:24.
No, I like it just the way it is. If you're too lazy to register, I don't care what you have to say.
13% (3 votes)
Yes, but all comments must be approved by "the owners."
13% (3 votes)
Yes, make it a free-for-all the way 911blahgger used to be.
21% (5 votes)
Whatever Gretavo and Cass decide what's best for us deluded twoofers is fine with me.
54% (13 votes)
Total votes: 24
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gretavo's picture

sigh...

Submitted by gretavo on Fri, 2009-04-10 00:04.

Yeah I've thought about doing that, but do I really want Col. Jenny and Family Guy leaving turds in the queue that I'll have to clean up? I mean, we could try it for a while and see what happens, how about that? But they HAVE to be moderated, because otherwise people post really nasty shit, including thinly veiled threats...

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willyloman's picture

I voted "no" and apparently...

Submitted by willyloman on Fri, 2009-04-10 01:04.

I was the only one to do so.. Even though, on my site, I don't restrict comments really at all, unless they are racist in nature or call for violence of some kind. But just recently, just yesterday in fact, someone scanned through all my Palestinian Rights articles, then since I guess they didn' find what they were looking for, someone else came along and started leaving racist and anti-Semitic remarks... all of a sudden... what a coincidence... So to make a long story short, I banned the guy, and removed the offensive comments, but I have to wonder these days, with Lieberman still sitting on HR 1955 and S 1959, if sites like ours that deal with a truer version of the Truth movement may want to keep a tighter reign on comments. Just a thought.

"The future is not inherited, it is achieved." JFK

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gretavo's picture

ok, pop by backular demand

Submitted by gretavo on Fri, 2009-04-10 00:21.

Anonymous comments will again be allowed but will be moderated, i.e. have to be approved in order to be published. Some users here have "hall monitor" privileges which means that they have the power to view the comment queue and publish appropriate content. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE err on the side of caution when deciding whether to approve a comment. I would much rather limit the approval of comments to myself but I can only grant permission to simply VIEW the comment queue together with the permission to approve, and it's important to me that if there are to be anonymous comments that trusted users here should be able to see what is getting approved and what is not in the interest of transparency.

Mainly I am concerned about people trying to post threats, racist junk, or referring to people by their real names if they do not make a habit of going by their real names (there are plenty of legitimate reasons to prefer to remain pseudonymous!) Again, if you have the merest suspicion that gReT might not want his mom reading something posted anonymously, don't approve it! Not that gReT's mom ever reads anything here--it's just my way of saying that there are plenty of jerks out there who would love to make trouble for us!

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casseia's picture

Meh... I think it's a bad idea.

Submitted by casseia on Fri, 2009-04-10 01:13.

I'd be in favor of "streamlining" the registration process but the annoymice this place attracts are especially vicious (and often disease-carrying). Oh well, let's give it a whirl.

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gretavo's picture

well, it will be instructive...

Submitted by gretavo on Fri, 2009-04-10 01:27.

and we can always stop it like we did before...

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Keenan's picture

So, how is the annoymouse experiment going?

Submitted by Keenan on Tue, 2009-07-14 05:46.

Are the amount of turds that have to be cleaned out of the que at a manageable level?

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