RFC: Proposed comment policy change

Posted Nov 20, 2004 5:33 UTC (Sat) by nicoruiz (subscriber, #25546)
In reply to: RFC: Proposed comment policy change by potiere
Parent article: RFC: Proposed comment policy change

I agree with bluefoxicy and potiere. Some people with valueable contributions may have perfectly valid reasons not to subscribe. And I remember posts from Linux heavyweights that have been quite useful and somehow I'm under the impression that not all of them are subscribers.

If this would be my website I would color non-subscribers posts different (I'm thinking changing the color of the post's title bar). That makes them easy to spot, is not time-consuming for the editors and the readers can turn on the troll-meter when reading them. If I become convinced that most non-subscribers' posts are useless I can readily skip them when reading comments (just like I skip ads in the middle of articles). It's a non-technical solution for a non-technical problem.

Personally, I find the actual S/N good enough to keep it as it is. My vote goes for 'let all post'.

I'm subscribed, from rich country.