Anonymous Posts….to Allow or Not to Allow?
I need your feedback.
I have been pretty open about not being a fan of anonymous feedback. I want to leave my blog open to get input, comments and criticism, but I don’t want to let people with an ax to grind or a special interest access to ramble on and on and on without credibility.
For example, one person – anonymously – left eleven anonymous comments yesterday in an hour and a half. All were junk, quite honestly. So they clog up the comment posts, and I really don’t like removing comments because it seems like I’m editorializing.
But surely, if someone has something important enough to say, shouldn’t it be with their name to give it credibility, as my post has mine?
Help me with this. My inclination is to start not allowing anonymous posts. I think they are valueless and often written cowardly and with bias.
What do you think? Leave me a comment, preferably not anonymously….
posted by Mark Pocan @ 9:05 AM
7 comments
7 Comments:
I used to be very disappointed when I came across a blog that I liked that only allowed for comments from their members. Eventually I've ended up getting accounts on the places that really interested me.
I've only ever got one "anonymous" comment.
But it was from someone calling himself "Jesus," so I was afraid to delete it.
Deny Anonymous. I never liked him anyway.
mark,
you only think my posts were junk because they point out some of the fallacies in your arguments.
Mark, after listening to the lawyer yesterday, unless you're independently wealthy, you should at least want a name attached to the comment to track the person down.
I say allow them. If they get defamatory, you can delete them. I would turn on word verification, though.
I've had mixed feelings about anonymous comments also but the software I use (wordpress) does allow me to capture the IP address.
I did have one case where someone on the right took some pretty offensive shots in the blog so I went in and changed his name to what it really was. It's not easy to find the names, but it's possible.
Does blogger have a moderate function where you can make it so it doesn't post the comment until after you give it the nod?
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