RFC: Proposed comment policy change

Posted Nov 20, 2004 1:24 UTC (Sat) by Alan_Hicks (guest, #20469)
In reply to: RFC: Proposed comment policy change by MathFox
Parent article: RFC: Proposed comment policy change

I've absolutely nothing against a subscriber-only -can-post system; however, I'm not for this
active editing or screening of comments for a couple of reasons.

1) Too much overhead for the editors for a problem that is low on the totem pole.
2) A "remove this comment" link would mean the editors would have to make a decision on who's
being the troll, the commentor, or the person requesting the removal? That brings us right back
to #1.

Editors, I say go it, but don't do a lame moderated system; LWN is above the need for that at
least presently.