Look, if you have a blog, you're just, well, a guy with a blog. You're not some effin' big shot who can demand of people that they do a lotta crap to read and reply on your blog. You're just a guy with a blog, one of approximately 4,000,000,000 other people on this planet of 6,000,000,000 people who have a blog.
So anyhow, it's okay if you make me log in to blogger.com to post on your blog. No big deal. That login also works on half the other blogs on the planet. One thing that pisses me off, though -- and that has driven me away from most of the "big" blogs -- is if you make me sign up for an account that works ONLY ON YOUR OWN BLOG.
How fucking crazy is that? Look, you stupid motherfucker, I don't give a crap how goddamned full of yourself you are. You are NOT so goddamned *SPECIAL* that I'm going to go out of my way to participate on your blog by signing up for an account that works on one, and ONLY one blog of the several hundred on my blogroll and approximately 4,000,000,000 other blogs on this planet. I mean, who the fuck you think you are? Jesus Christ and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi reincarnated in one body? Get over your fucking self, already!
-- Badtux the Rude Penguin
Elevating the level of discourse of our fine nation, fuck yeah!
Yesterday I noticed that Andy Borowitz's humor piece on Huffington Post was linked from Google News as a news article. Seeing no way to contact Google, I decided to leave a note on Andy's column. It turns out that registering to comment on HuffPo is a big fuckin' deal, and then they'll review your request and let you comment within 24 hours. Eventually, sucker that I am at times, I did just that. Yet they are the ones who needed to know about the problem... not me. (Exit left, grumbling.)
ReplyDeleteI generally skedaddle before I set up a special account for one blog. Now, trying to remember which username and password I used to sign up gets to be a pain.
ReplyDeleteHaloscan logins are good till you clear out the browser cache.
Peace
What I really find weird is when blogs say "no anonymous comments allowed." Um... for the casual Internet user, a screen name and BS e-mail are just as anonymous!
ReplyDeleteBesides, even if commenters put their real name and e-mail, the chance that you actually know who they are is like one in a billion. Probably some guy in some city 5000 miles away that you'll never meet.
If you check out my blog archives, you'll see that whenever I turn off anonymous posting is after I get another influx of Chinese comment spammers. Disabling anonymous posting seems to get rid of them, then after a couple weeks I remember to turn it back on again...
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Oh wow man, I totally didn't even notice your blog did not have anonymous comments.
ReplyDeleteAnd so it totally looks like I was "calling you out," so to speak. Thus making me look like a total douche. Wow, awkward...
Anyway um... insert apology here while I put my face in my hand.
Err, no, my blog has anonymous comments at the moment. I turned them back on a week ago, after they were off for two weeks because of Chinese comment spammers. I have a couple of commentators who prefer to be, how shall I put it, stealthy due to past or current, ah, affiliations, so I hate turning them off, but when the Chinese spammers start trashing the place... (shrug).
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