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On comment abuse

On comment abuse

Posted Nov 20, 2003 10:15 UTC (Thu) by sveinrn (subscriber, #2827)
Parent article: On comment abuse

First of all, as a paying subscriber I think we are important enough for the future of LWN that we shoul be allowed to discuss this without lots of non-subscribers whining.

I also think that LWN has reached the "critical mass" where restricting postings to subscribers only will not have a big impact on the number of quality posts.

Abusing the system is of course a lot more difficult when you have to pay, because each time your account is locked due to spamming, you have to pay to open a new one under a new name.

And finaly I think this solution is good for the number of subscribers, which will give more money to the editors and ultimatly even better quality to us readers.

So I think restricting postings to subscribers only is a simple and good way of doing this!


-sr-


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