Comments on: Bloggers beware…..! http://buhlerworks.com/wordpress/2007/04/10/bloggers-beware/ Insights for Effective Travel, Tourism & Destination Marketing Today Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:02:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: jimmy wales http://buhlerworks.com/wordpress/2007/04/10/bloggers-beware/comment-page-1/#comment-42 jimmy wales Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:53:52 +0000 http://buhlerworks.com/wordpress/?p=235#comment-42 i agree, policing the comments of blogs is next to impossible and why would you do it in the first place? if, as a blogger, you only want a certain class of commenter, then make it so people have to create an account prior to commenting. not that this will stop idiots but if the sign-up is long enough it will be something of a deterrent. i will disagree about using "anonymous" though. sometimes i just want to leave a quick message without my name and "anonymous" is a good way to do that. otherwise i'll use a name that's not my own. like on this comment. there's really no way to police that. i agree, policing the comments of blogs is next to impossible and why would you do it in the first place? if, as a blogger, you only want a certain class of commenter, then make it so people have to create an account prior to commenting. not that this will stop idiots but if the sign-up is long enough it will be something of a deterrent.

i will disagree about using “anonymous” though. sometimes i just want to leave a quick message without my name and “anonymous” is a good way to do that. otherwise i’ll use a name that’s not my own. like on this comment. there’s really no way to police that.

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