Commenting is go!
Posted by Ken Parish on Monday, February 8, 2010
Remember me? That grumpy old bloke who once obsessively spewed forth half-baked opinions here at Troppo? After being AWOL for some time a comeback of sorts seems imminent. I’m experiencing fitful urges to post, usually on very silly topics like whether Jen may have committed reportable child abuse by forcing young Jessica to watch KRudd being quizzed by members of James Farrell’s dumb generation on Q & A.
Pending one of these strange mental formations actually crystallising into a semi-coherent blog post, I’m warming up by making a major CT housekeeping announcement. After deep introspection between Nicholas Gruen and myself, we’ve decided to abolish (on a trial basis) the requirement for readers to register before making comment box contributions. It’s a decision we might come to regret, but our subjective impression is that the incidence of truly destructive trollery has been significantly reduced across the ozblogosphere in recent times. It may be that the loss of spontaneity and freedom that inevitably flow from forcing readers to register before they can participate in discussion is a price we no longer need pay. Anyway, time will tell …
This entry was posted on Monday, February 8th, 2010 at 8:34 PM and filed under Metablogging, Site News.
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Speaking as someone you foolishly let register, yay
Posted on 09-Feb-10 at 5:34 am | PermalinkWelcome Back Ken,
Trolls have moved to twitter too. Certainly boring TV shows like #QandA are more fun when following their twitter hashtag.
Posted on 09-Feb-10 at 6:03 am | PermalinkI cannot watch Q&A. I inevitably wind up yelling at the TV.
Posted on 09-Feb-10 at 6:59 am | PermalinkThis is a good move. The comment threads on troppo used to be very interesting, but dropped off markedly after requiring registration.
Posted on 09-Feb-10 at 7:15 am | PermalinkWelcome back, Ken. Hope you start writing more soon.
Posted on 09-Feb-10 at 7:26 am | PermalinkA good decision! You can always delete troll comments anyway.
Posted on 09-Feb-10 at 7:35 am | PermalinkWhat a bunch of fuckwits.
(Oops sorry I didn’t realise I was registered).
Posted on 09-Feb-10 at 8:06 am | PermalinkI’ve registered about 3 times over the last year or so but can still never log in.
Posted on 09-Feb-10 at 1:02 pm | PermalinkThank. God.
Posted on 09-Feb-10 at 5:46 pm | PermalinkDit. To.
Posted on 10-Feb-10 at 7:57 am | PermalinkGood move!! Like others, I too have been unable to post despite being registered?!
Posted on 10-Feb-10 at 3:58 pm | PermalinkNo, comments function still doesn’t seem to be working for me.
If nobody can read this, could they let me know?
Posted on 10-Feb-10 at 4:15 pm | PermalinkNabakov
I can read it fine.
Posted on 10-Feb-10 at 5:12 pm | PermalinkYou’re a cruel man Nabs.
Posted on 10-Feb-10 at 5:14 pm | PermalinkSometimes when you walk out on a tropical golf course and a big fat cane toad is sitting right where you’d place your tee, it’s awfully hard not to pull out a driver instead of the iron the situation should demand.
Posted on 10-Feb-10 at 5:25 pm | PermalinkI’d go with the sand wedge myself. Less walking to the next lie.
Posted on 10-Feb-10 at 5:36 pm | PermalinkI’ll pay that one Gummo Hogan.
Mind you, if you’re not keeping score there’s a lotta fun to had thrashing around in a sandtrap with a sturdy piece of metal and a small immobile target.
Posted on 10-Feb-10 at 5:43 pm | Permalink