Wednesday On The Record

“ya, Arstechnica is a total snoozefest”

Agreed.

“…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.

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.

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?