Comments on: How to Post Comments http://mikemason.ca/blog/2008/01/how-to-post-comments/ agile thinking Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:52:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: mandersen http://mikemason.ca/blog/2008/01/how-to-post-comments/comment-page-1/#comment-114 mandersen Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:03:38 +0000 http://mikemason.ca/blog/?p=20#comment-114 Ur such a total retard for saying that. So is ur morron friend Clintn. L8srs! Ur such a total retard for saying that. So is ur morron friend Clintn. L8srs!

]]> By: Clinton Begin http://mikemason.ca/blog/2008/01/how-to-post-comments/comment-page-1/#comment-26 Clinton Begin Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:56:05 +0000 http://mikemason.ca/blog/?p=20#comment-26 The blog sphere would be a better place if everyone just disabled comments. The barrier to entry to leave a comment is too low. It enables people to react too quickly and with more emotion than intelligence. The software development community isn't mature enough to handle such freedom of communication. The entire space is crowded with immature, adversarial garbage. And yet, many do so anonymously or under a false identity. Meanwhile they're lowering the quality of YOUR blog. Sure you can moderate your posts. But why should you have to? People just whine and accuse you of bias (duh! it's YOUR blog). I suggest disabling comments entirely. If anyone is going to tell you you're off base, it will be your friends -- and we have your email address. Let the violent opposition respond on their own blogs, which are likely filled with crap of similar quality. Keep garbage in the garbage can. When they look back at their own blog in a year, they'll regret it. And when others read a few entries, they'll realize where they are...and likely won't come back. It's also a better way for honest, polite rebuttals to be framed as well. A good blogger will respond with intelligence in their own blog, to keep quality content local to build their reputation -- because it's something they want to be associated with. Clinton The blog sphere would be a better place if everyone just disabled comments. The barrier to entry to leave a comment is too low. It enables people to react too quickly and with more emotion than intelligence.

The software development community isn’t mature enough to handle such freedom of communication.

The entire space is crowded with immature, adversarial garbage. And yet, many do so anonymously or under a false identity.

Meanwhile they’re lowering the quality of YOUR blog. Sure you can moderate your posts. But why should you have to? People just whine and accuse you of bias (duh! it’s YOUR blog). I suggest disabling comments entirely. If anyone is going to tell you you’re off base, it will be your friends — and we have your email address.

Let the violent opposition respond on their own blogs, which are likely filled with crap of similar quality. Keep garbage in the garbage can. When they look back at their own blog in a year, they’ll regret it. And when others read a few entries, they’ll realize where they are…and likely won’t come back.

It’s also a better way for honest, polite rebuttals to be framed as well. A good blogger will respond with intelligence in their own blog, to keep quality content local to build their reputation — because it’s something they want to be associated with.

Clinton

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