We’re considering adding registration as a requirement for commenting. This is to help us keep everyone straight and limit abuse/spam.
Registration only requires a username and email address, and it’s both instant and painless. For users, registration would be more convenient because name/email/website information is stored for each post.
Please post your thoughts!
June 28th, 2007 at 1:41 am
Not to say I’m incapable of snarkiness ;) But anyone who follows my comments at all KNOW I consider all of Chris’ comments to be newsworthy.
;)
((( I want emoticons, dammit )))
and for the record, I’m often cranky, or at the least do not deal with BS well . . .
/hijack
June 28th, 2007 at 1:37 am
I remember thinking that comment from soap was bizarre… thought maybe she was having a bad day lol.
June 26th, 2007 at 4:36 pm
Oh my. I didn’t realize that it was one of the editors who’d been impersonated. I am sorry, Soap, for being cranky about it - I hope that registration will help stem that kind of behaviour.
You were right, it was no big deal to register. I decided it was worth bothering to do so, because I never really know when to shut up. :-)
June 26th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
ugh, errors -
“consisely” = concisely
“roll” = role
June 26th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
Sorry for the bolding but I want people to read this comment.
Since Serena has posted, let me explain the one example that has prompted us to even consider registration - I didn’t post the first comment on this thread:
http://etsynews.com/245/etsy-may-consider-investigating-optimizing-site-for-google/
I think Serena is nice enough to continue this site - I would shut it down when it becomes a stomping ground for a lot of whining and is sucking up editorial time (read: babysitting). I joined the editorial staff because I thought the site would provide a venue where people would be able to see all the news in one place and consisely and would feel freer to post suggestions and constructive criticism without some of the qualms people might have (rightly or wrongly, i am not judging) about posting the same comments to the Etsy fora.
Personally, I don’t have an issue if a poster likes or dislikes etsy or thinks its is the next best thing to sliced bread or the devil incarnate. Where I step in personally (and tempered by my roll here as an editor) is when I feel someone
is being personally attacked (especially when those people are not here to defend themselves - that is COWARDLY imo) and the whining is so incessant and unproductive I want to just leave. Maybe that’s the point for some - scare people off Etsy so it fails? I personally don’t want that.
Yes, someone impersonated me. The reg requirement never would have been imposed if someone didn’t have to be so slimy.
[EDITED to put in the bolding I forgot.]