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Mr. B, why isn't typekey available? Can you fix this?

Posted by: Anonymous at April 18, 2007 1:15 PM

Typekey is temporarily disabled because a certain someone was hijacking the identities of several regular commenters (including us). It was creating more confusion than it was worth. We're looking into other options for secure, unique identities. Any ideas?

Posted by: Brownstoner at April 18, 2007 1:26 PM

I personally would leave things exactly the way they are now. There's nothing wrong with the status quo. If you go in and "fix" things with some draconian system for protecting posters' (entirely made-up) identities on this site, you're only going to make things worse.

Posted by: Omega at April 18, 2007 1:49 PM

I couldn't agree more and I am soooo tired of this whole issue. I remember when we were talking about this a year ago. At the time I said we should just chill out and leave well enough alone, but others insisted that we try mandatory registration. When that left the site in a persistent vegetative state, we went to voluntary use of typekey, and now....we're back where we originally started!! It's too bad we didn't just drop the whole issue of "security" a year ago. It would have spared all of us a lot of grief.

Leave the site alone. It works AS IS. Don't mess with success.

Posted by: Spaminal at April 18, 2007 3:01 PM

The problem with Typekey is it allows separate display and account names, so its very easy to spoof another poster. Whatever system you go with it should make it plainly obvious what account posters are linked to.
Then you need moderators who can watch for abuse and have tools to ban accounts and IP addresses.

As to keeping the status quo- this is a business for Mr. B and there are plenty of functioning sites that do a better job managing a poster community than what is currently here.

Posted by: Anonymous at April 18, 2007 3:13 PM

"...there are plenty of functioning sites that do a better job managing a poster community than what is currently here."

Yeah, like snoozefest.com. Precisely because this is a business, Mr. B should keep it interesting, open and free.

For Christ's sake, we're not talking about people's real identifies in the first place. For the most part we're talking about handles that people have made up out of thin air. Big deal. Start clamping on layers of 'security' simply to protect people's precious handles and watch your hit rate sink like a stone.

Posted by: Anonymous at April 18, 2007 3:33 PM

ya, Arstechnica is a total snoozefest

Posted by: Anonymous at April 18, 2007 3:58 PM

"ya, Arstechnica is a total snoozefest"

Agreed.

Posted by: Anonymous at April 18, 2007 4:48 PM

The baby whale died. So sad.

Posted by: Anonymous at April 19, 2007 10:24 AM