All right, I'm fed up.
Aug. 8th, 2005 08:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7I know I have a lot of readers who don't comment. I also know I have a lot of readers who aren't lj-users. Many of them email me frequently. Some will occasionally contact me out of the blue and mention that they've been reading for years. It's a bit surprising, but not really: it's a public website and I've learned over the years that people like the way I write. Unfortunately this doesn't mean they like me, but I can live with that.
There are frequently phases when anonymous commenting becomes more prevalent. I don't know-- I'll come up top for a weird search phrase and acquire several odd readers, or the like, and in the ensuing months they'll all decide to fix my life's problems by leaving cryptic, poorly-punctuated comments, often containing hostile and poorly-considered advice. This happens a lot. I don't ban anon posting because there are a number of good anon commenters and I'd hate to lose them.
But I'm sick of doing IP lookups to figure out whether this anon person is the same as that one. Sick of it. I like to know who I'm talking to-- I don't require much, often just a letter, but I need something. It's only polite. It doesn't have to be a real name.
So I have a new anonymous comment posting policy. It's been in place for a while, but I thought to be fair I had better make it official, and now I have an enforcement bit of it. I've always asked people to leave a name; now I'm simply not putting up with people not doing so anymore. I see no reason to keep frustrating myself by trying to reason with people who aren't interested in reason. So I won't.
ANON POSTING POLICY:
Anonymous commenters MUST SIGN A NAME. It doesn't have to be their name. It does have to be the same name every time. IF YOU DO NOT SIGN A NAME (or initial or identifying symbol or whatever you feel is cool), YOUR COMMENT WILL BE DELETED UNREAD. Yes, I am going to be mental enough to look first for the signature. If it is not signed, I WILL NOT READ IT.
I am sick of people leaving comments and me having to do IP lookups to figure out whether it's the same person I was talking to before. Cut it out: It's annoying, and this is MY journal. Things that annoy me don't fly.
If you are too chicken to have a conversation, that is, letting me know if you've talked to me before, then you're not worth my time. Sorry. This is my journal after all.
There are frequently phases when anonymous commenting becomes more prevalent. I don't know-- I'll come up top for a weird search phrase and acquire several odd readers, or the like, and in the ensuing months they'll all decide to fix my life's problems by leaving cryptic, poorly-punctuated comments, often containing hostile and poorly-considered advice. This happens a lot. I don't ban anon posting because there are a number of good anon commenters and I'd hate to lose them.
But I'm sick of doing IP lookups to figure out whether this anon person is the same as that one. Sick of it. I like to know who I'm talking to-- I don't require much, often just a letter, but I need something. It's only polite. It doesn't have to be a real name.
So I have a new anonymous comment posting policy. It's been in place for a while, but I thought to be fair I had better make it official, and now I have an enforcement bit of it. I've always asked people to leave a name; now I'm simply not putting up with people not doing so anymore. I see no reason to keep frustrating myself by trying to reason with people who aren't interested in reason. So I won't.
ANON POSTING POLICY:
Anonymous commenters MUST SIGN A NAME. It doesn't have to be their name. It does have to be the same name every time. IF YOU DO NOT SIGN A NAME (or initial or identifying symbol or whatever you feel is cool), YOUR COMMENT WILL BE DELETED UNREAD. Yes, I am going to be mental enough to look first for the signature. If it is not signed, I WILL NOT READ IT.
I am sick of people leaving comments and me having to do IP lookups to figure out whether it's the same person I was talking to before. Cut it out: It's annoying, and this is MY journal. Things that annoy me don't fly.
If you are too chicken to have a conversation, that is, letting me know if you've talked to me before, then you're not worth my time. Sorry. This is my journal after all.
