I'm a little bummed. Several of my blogging friends have been "attacked" on their own blogs by people leaving ugly comments. Comments my friends didn't like, and did not like having to go in and remove, or even change, as Zenners likes to do. (wee note: Zenners also likes to keep his archives short. The post in his blog that discusses his habit of changing comments left on his blog to suit him is no longer there).
Their solution to obnoxious peeps like Zen who cannot resist the urge to be as verbally offensive as possible is to lock their comments. You now need to log in to a site and get a "type key" or some other effort, if you wish to add comments to their blogs.
I figure, "Why bother?"
I did sign up for a "TypeKey" identity, but I can no longer remember what it was, and am just too lazy to go searching for it. Too lazy, these days, to sign up for a new one. Too lazy to jump through the hoops required to leave my thoughts on other people's blogs.
If they want me to comment, they'll make it easy for me. If they don't, then they won't. Simple as that. It's not like I have a compulsion to do this.
Still. I regret that
a) People like Zen, plus those who create 'bots that spam porn sites and on-line casinos into blog comment fields (not Zen), feel the need to do those things. They just don't have the decency to play nice when it comes to dealing with other peoples' creations.
b) People like my friends cannot learn to just let that kind of crap blow past them. Just delete the damned things, if you dislike them. Or ignore them, better yet. If they put links to their porn sites in, hell, remove them. Block the IPs. Whatever.
Anyway, if you put locks on your blog, and make me give you a seekrit passwurd to get past them, I'm likely to just not bother. Sorry, guys. I do read your blogs, sometimes. I just won't be conversing with you concerning them.
Mostly peeps are nice in the comments on my blog. A few times nasty words were left, I didn't care. But I do understand why some peeps care, especially when a Zen type uses a blogger's comment area to bash a third party who doesn't get the combat prose thing.
That said, if a blogger makes it a PITA to leave comments, often I won't bother either.
wee note: Zenners also likes to keep his archives short. The post in his blog that discusses his habit of changing comments left on his blog to suit him is no longer there
Where ya been lookin'?
Zen's comment changing post.
People ... cannot learn to just let that kind of crap blow past them. Just delete the damned things, if you dislike them. Or ignore them, better yet.
Amen.
I haven't been blogging long and this is probably the kiss of death.
I've only had one person "drop a load." I found it entertaining watching how many times that individual checked back, I'm sure desperately hoping to see a SOME reaction.