Limiting comment posting rights

Posted Nov 18, 2004 18:31 UTC (Thu) by paulj (subscriber, #341)
In reply to: Limiting comment posting rights by corbet
Parent article: Microsoft issues warning about Linux lawsuits (Reuters)

Hmm, but if you do that then discussions will seem disjointed. I want to see good discussions still though.

A moderation system might be better, but obviously a lot more work.

A less involved solution that would keep views of discussions coherent would be to delay access to posting by non members for X hours (eg 12 or 24), how effective that would be is hard to judge - for contraversial topics it would at least mean that the initial comments would be the (hopefully) more considered opinions of subscribers.

regards,

--paulj