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Anon?? What the?

  • Artigo

Just a quick whine...why do people post comments:

A) Anonymously?

B) With bogus details?

I'm interested to hear from folks on this, as it's quite peculiar. I love getting feedback about my posts, but it's really frustrating when you want to find out more about the person contributing, only to find they are either cloaked in anonymity, or just put in junk details.

I fully understand that not everyone has a web reference (blog, website, etc), but even just your name gives you an identity, and gives your comments context.

So please leave some details next time you comment, it makes a big difference.

P.S: Thanks to George C for alerting me to the fact that my blog had comments turned off for non-authed users...my bad ;) It's fixed now :)

Comments

  • Anonymous
    April 14, 2005
    Some people are just too lazy to fill in those fields :)
  • Anonymous
    April 14, 2005
    Some people comment anonymously because they are employed, and posting to a competitor's blog would look bad :-P
  • Anonymous
    April 14, 2005
    Anonymity - well it is the internet after all.
  • Anonymous
    April 14, 2005
    David, I agreee 100%.

    I think that the constant deluge of spam over the last few years has had something to do with it.

    I have gotten into the habit of constantly entering fake details into any online form, just because you really don't know where they will eventually end up.

    So when posting to blogs, you have to mentally de-tune to not use that behavior, and post your real details.

    Which also reminds me, I have to finish coding the comments engine for my own blog. :-)

    Regards,

    Bruce McLeod
  • Anonymous
    April 14, 2005
    Having seen that usenet posts I made a dozen years ago are still prominent in google searches, I now try to err on the side of anonymity in my postings unless I'm confident it's something I want my great grandchildren to be able to know that I wrote. (I'm actually fortunate that most of my early usenet posts were actually fairly thoughtful and well written, but I don't trust myself to be able to continue that standard today).

    -anon

    (BTW, if the comment is something that I think the blog owner might want to follow up on, I will generally also provide my real email address via the blog's contact link)
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  • Anonymous
    April 15, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    April 15, 2005
    Of course lots of people post anonymously. Like I want my name all over the place on all of the search engines... Google can really give you a good overview of someone just by typing in their name and seeing on the responses to other people's blogs. That's not a good thing thanks.
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    April 17, 2005
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