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dailyheights

It's a terrible shame that we had to dis-allow guest posting, for all the reasons that Chris said. Guest posting should be allowed. The reason why it was shut down is because nobody (currently) has the time to police the board to the degree that is necessary when open comments are allowed.

We're going to revisit this issue in 2006... Banning guest posting is wildly popular with regular message board users, but sorry guys, without question, it really does shut out a lot of important voices from the discussion.

armchair_warrior

was it this slow before the no guest posting went into effect?

candicissima

armchair_warrior wrote: was it this slow before the no guest posting went into effect?

I think this is more due to the holiday season.

armchair_warrior

ah makes sense.

emily

Alex wrote: [quote=EmilyM]With all due respect, I don't think the amount of time you've spent here has given you a particularly accurate view of the level of nuisance that the much more than "occasional" obnoxious guest posts created, or the number of valuable registered posters who felt like they were being driven off by it.

He said he has been reading the board since April

Right, but what I mean is that if he had been reading regularly since April, he would probably have a sense of how disruptive the anonymice have been.

chris

By my own best guestimate I have read all, or part, of more than 100 threads on Dailyheights. (In other words daily reading in recent months, weekly before that) And while I must say I thought that I had seen my fair share of anonymous foolery, I guess by the judgment of some, I have not -- my apologies.

I also regret calling the Registration move 'short-sighted' since it has obviously been wrestled with considerably.

Either way, I only wanted to keep the issue alive and I am glad to see it will be revisited in 2006.

bewitched

Screw revisiting, this was the best thing to happen to the board all year. Registration is SOOOOO simple. Get a grip guests and spend a few minutes signing up at your community message board.

jamesondean

The idea of "important voices" being lost is gainsaying, whereas we know for a fact how disruptive guest posting is. Don't look back. Things are way better now. Thanks again, Andy.

armchair_warrior

if its important voices. they would take the time to sign up right :P. hehe

rah

dailyheights wrote: but sorry guys, without question, it really does shut out a lot of important voices from the discussion.

again, I haven't heard an explanation for how requiring registration "shuts out" "important voices".