Own Your Words
Thursday, 8 November 2007
Posted by austin in: HaloStatue, Personal, trackback
I have approved my last anonymous comment on halostatue.ca. I don’t care if people disagree with me; I do care that people won’t own their words. I happily own my words here—whether you agree with me or not. I expect people who comment on my posts to do the same.
I don’t have a problem with identifiable pseudonyms, like Fake Steve Jobs or Mini-Microsoft or even why the lucky stiff. Those are all people who can be identified. I do have a problem with anonymous cowards, as Slashdot calls them.
If you want to comment on my blog in the future, you must provide either a valid email address that I can verify personally (and I will) or a valid URL to your own blog or public profile page that identifies you in a way that people can see what you’re about—whether you’re a real person or a pseudonymous person. If you don’t do one of the above, your comment will be deleted with no notice.
I also won’t allow abusive comments, toward me or toward others. If you feel that I have been abusive in a post, please post a comment. I will act on it. (See the discussion in last year’s posts with Ola Bini; we worked out our differences.)
My readers, whomever they may be, will be able to know that even if I accept a pseudonym, I have at least been able to find someone who will own up to the words posted here.
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