Re: Sites requiring registration to post a comment

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From: Yoz Grahame
Subject: Re: Sites requiring registration to post a comment
Date: 00:09 on 23 Mar 2005
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 15:19:25 -0600 (CST), Peter da Silva
<peter@xxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> > My use.perl.org site requires registration to post.  And it's a good thing,
> > too, because it prevents a lot of comment spam, trolling, and other
> > undesirable things (and I know this to be true, because by accident I
> > enabled anonymous comments for a few months, and the amount of abuse on the
> > site noticably increased, which is how I found out that I had enabled
> > anonymous comments).
> 
> If your website is valuable and important enough to people, then you can do
> that. But for flickr, or randomfansite.com?

Absolutely! It's hard enough keeping comment spam off my blog, where I
have special tools to do it. I don't want to have to spend ages
cleaning it off my public photos too.
Flickr has one of the most upbeat and friendly communities I've seen,
and one of the prime reasons is that there isn't a load of random
abusive scrawl all over it.

-- Yoz
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