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Reuters Ends Anonymous Comments
eldavojohn writes "In an effort to retain civility, it appears that Thompson Reuters has ended anonymous web comments. You may recall the defense of the anonymous commenter, but you need look no further than Reuters' own Dean Wright (Global Editor, Ethics, Innovation and News Standards of Reuters) for two lengthy editorials arguing against anonymity online. After reading his complaints against anonymous readers, it almost seems like they need a moderation system to decide what's worth reading and what's trash."
Fuck you.
- John Smith.
The correct name is Thomson Reuters
Don't forget all the additional comments to the effect of: "The mods are on crack" or "I've got karma to burn" and other obvious filler material. It only works on /. because no one tries to pretend that this is a civil place. News sites have editors that are many times more informed than their average reader. On /., this is obviously NOT the case. Here, the inmates running the asylum are nuttier than the inmates reading the articles.
Tequila: It's not just for breakfast anymore!
It's not like their server couldn't log the IP along with the anonymous comment. And what about services like 10minutemail, mailinator, or guerrila mail? I doubt hunting down someone by one of those email addresses would be any easier than just using whatever IP they posted under.
Don't actually have much experience of modding do you.
First a Moderator gets to mod a post once.
Second there isn't much that deserves modding up, even seemingly good posts are often rehashing old argument after old argument.
Third if you wish to moderate and use your mod points then browsing at -1 is essential, all the obvious candidates for modding up go really quickly. Not only that but posts are being meta-moderated within minutes of being written.
even posts that have had no initial moderation.
Meta-moderating has actually changed over the years it used to be evaluating if mods were being fair and even handed, now its more to do with the quality of the posts themselves. Thats harder than playing agree or disagree with other Mods.
The other change is that there used to be more downward modding for being off topic now its mostly reserved for offensive morons. AC's were rarely modded up in the past but these days it is not an issue if an AC makes an interesting point. Funny mods I will only give if they are original and funny rehashed memes are not usually funny.
If your not getting moderated you may be boring or stating the obvious or just not bringing anything to the table in which case it's time to give the reply button a rest till you really have something to say.
i'll post this anon since its off topic but hopefully informative but there is nothing happening with this story anyway. Slashdot seems to have a quota for storys to post each day. less would be better ...