Ubuntu 11.04 Beta 1 (Natty Narwhal) Released.

Posted Apr 1, 2011 10:57 UTC (Fri) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266)
In reply to: Ubuntu 11.04 Beta 1 (Natty Narwhal) Released. by zzxtty
Parent article: Ubuntu 11.04 Beta 1 (Natty Narwhal) Released.

Some people register to comment on a particular story. For instance, if LWN is reporting on a new project you wrote, and you want to answer questions directly here. I believe I have seen this happen already in more than one story.

You do not need an account to lurk, so a lot of people will register only when they need to post.

Ubuntu 11.04 Beta 1 (Natty Narwhal) Released.

Posted Apr 1, 2011 11:49 UTC (Fri) by zzxtty (guest, #45175) [Link] (1 responses)

I don't disagree, I was just thinking of a quick dirty hack which would be simple to implement. A lot of the interesting comments seem to come up from the same old usernames, although there would be inconvenience I think it would be limited, however I have no idea if it would justify the benefit.

Another approach might be to let any paying subscriber delete any guest post for an account which is less than $x days old. I doubt it would be abused, sure we disagree with each other but it's usually good natured, I don't recall our exchanges ever escalating to handbags at dawn.

The simplest option is to leave everything as is and just have a good moan every now and again, this works for me!

Ubuntu 11.04 Beta 1 (Natty Narwhal) Released.

Posted Apr 1, 2011 12:18 UTC (Fri) by ean5533 (guest, #69480) [Link]

The last thing we need is Florian Mueller being able to delete our posts.