The scourge of the anonymous coward
Posted Jun 27, 2002 12:57 UTC (Thu) by
NZheretic (guest, #409)
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Letters to the editor
One plea, if you wish to see the quality of the comments remain at such a high level, then please consider requiring everyone to pre-register with a valid email address before making a comment. You might even consider not allowing free-email services such as hotmail and yahoo-mail.
On registration, you should send an initial email to the above address containing a password to enter before allowing a comment to be posted.
There is no reason to display the email address in the comments, unless the person elects to ( opt-in not opt-out ), but IMO requiring the act of just providing a valid email address will greatly help in maintaining a higher average quality of commentary than that such that is now found at slashdot.
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