Filtering comments

Filtering comments

Posted Nov 20, 2004 23:17 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Filtering comments by mdekkers
Parent article: RFC: Proposed comment policy change

I too would hate to see non-subscriber comments go the way of the dodo. This approach is very, very, heavy handed - especially in the light of the amount of really bad posts we have had here (almost none).

As one of those who complained about the recent post, I agree.

Further, I can't see what would stop a determined troll becoming a subscriber in order to troll. There's currently a strong correlation between trolls and non-subscribers, but I think that stopping non-subscribers from posting will eventually just make the trolls subscribe; so in the end it'll only cut off intermittent visitors, who might still have good points to make.

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