postings. The only reason that's the case is because I didn't feel
like taking the time to write a membership system for the app and
require people to log in to post comments, and that being the case, if
I were to just require people to enter names, they could enter
whatever they like, i.e. "John Quarto Von Tivadar" ... now... if I had
any doubt as to the authenticity of such a veiled comment, I would
verify the source and ask for confirmation that it was indeed that
person who'd posted it and then remove the posting otherwise. I would
consider protecting their identity this way the only respectful thing
to do in that situation.
If I have a problem with this sort of thing happening continually then
I'll probably institute some sort of membership in the blog, but I'm
hoping the honor system will be manageable. :) I don't mind people
posting anonymously even -- although I'd prefer comments with some
meatty content, even if it's inflamatory.
Couple other people pointed out some other spelling / grammar errors
-- I guess I skimmed over it pretty quickly and didn't catch them. Not
that my spelling or grammar have ever been perfect.
I also find it really interresting the wide array of responses I'm
getting from people as to whether or not they think I should remove
it. It's still pretty close to half and half.
> Personally I was about to respond with the comment, “and
> for an example of
> someone who really can’t, see the above comment…” but
> that’d be juvenile ;)
Yea, trying not to get into the "yes you did / no I didn't" war. :P
> Sometimes it’s fun to be juvenile!
Once in a while. :) Context is everything tho. In a text medium like
this I'd have to explain the joke and then it wouldn't be funny. :P
> It’s up to you as to how you deal with the comment… If it
> were me behind the
> keyboard I wouldn’t have built it to allow anonymous
> posting… perhaps
> grabbing the IP, OS and Browser from the CGI variables and
> creating a name
> for those who posted anonymously would do the trick, eg:
> Someone running IE on Windows 2000 from xx.xx.xx.xx
> posted….
Thanks Hatton, I kinda liked Jerry's suggestion of random guesses as
to the identity of anonymous postings. I don't think I'll implement
it, but I had a good laugh. :)
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