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Thursday, November 17, 2011

A quick note about anonymous commenting

Blogger, or GOOGLE (to quote the raging, anti-legal assistant, Oshawa-hater) in its infinite wisdom does not offer the ability to turn off anonymous commenting but allow for 'Name' and 'Blogger or other ID' options. In other words, if I turn off anonymous commenting, I force you all to sign in.

I do have the option to integrate comments using Facebook accounts, but why? I hate blogs that do that. I want to comment with some protection of privacy. I'm sure you feel the same.

I also don't want to force people to sign in. I feel it's a deterrent. This isn't a newspaper. I don't need people to "own" their comments.

All I can suggest is that we don't feed the trolls. I know it's hard and I sit on my hands too, but if we leave them alone, they eventually get bored and surf away.

6 comments:

Squiggles said...

Bummer.

Guess this weekend I will be working on my "Don't Feed the Trolls" mantra.

C.J. Smith said...

Girl
Trust me. Imma feelin' your pain.

Skin Man said...

Can we still use the 'imma cut you'? I've been waiting anxiously to pull that one out on a troll, and its so full of awesome!

C.J. Smith said...

@Skin Man

Hell ya, provided purple rain doesn't beat you to it.

lswgirl13 said...

I kinda like the Anon's anyways.

Kathy said...

@lswgirl13 I kinda agree actually. If their comments were remotely true I might be genuinely hurt or annoyed, but they are so ridiculous as to be amusing.