Comments on: Sign Your Posts

By: eastack

eastack — Fri, 18 May 2007 15:20:29 +0000

I think add the author to the post is more good idea..

By: len bullard

len bullard — Fri, 11 May 2007 12:41:24 +0000

Good catch, John. The policy I try to follow:

1. I sign everything I write with my own name. Always have and always will.
2. On my personal blog (lamammals), there is a comment policy in the right column. Essentially, if it isn’t signed, I delete it.
3. On the 3D blog, comments have to pertain to the subject of the blog. I try to discipline myself to keep the posts to the topic it being a code blog for learning X3D.

I agree with Bray on this one: you are responsible for your blog and you are responsible for the comments posted there. One can come up with some very complex systems but I think that works best.

By: John Cowan

John Cowan — Wed, 09 May 2007 23:00:03 +0000

There really are no anonymous blogs. There are anonymous comments, of course (and I’ve used them occasionally in sufficiently righteous circumstances), but at most a blog can be pseudonymous, unless you only write one posting ever. And any blog could be pseudonymous, including yours and mine and Elliotte’s, unless you are in a position to check the author’s hard ID.

By: len

len — Fri, 04 May 2007 14:29:35 +0000

Anonymous blogs like anonymous comments go to the O-file as a policy. Someone would need a pretty good yarn not to have that done. I tried a policy of non-moderation and anonymous blog comments, but it attracts vermin.

By: Colin Prince

Colin Prince — Fri, 04 May 2007 13:21:39 +0000

I second the Date comment above. Name is a good idea yes. Date is a great idea.

The comments have dates, which is good.

Thanks!

Colin.

By: lefty

lefty — Thu, 03 May 2007 15:48:34 +0000

I agree with Brad Huffman. I’d much rather see a date on all pages than anything about the author.

By: Brad Huffman

Brad Huffman — Thu, 03 May 2007 15:02:45 +0000

I would also recommend adding a date to all pages.

By: John Cowan

John Cowan — Thu, 03 May 2007 14:09:28 +0000

Thanks for the heads-up. I have modified the header on Recycled Knowledge to have my name right under the title.

By: AsbjÃ¸rn Ulsberg

AsbjÃ¸rn Ulsberg — Thu, 03 May 2007 13:59:54 +0000

Not only “sign your posts”, but “write an about page” too. Preferably with a picture. A blog is usually a personal website, after all. If all I know about the blog is the blogger’s name, or even worse, nothing about the author at all, how can it be personal?