Evening, all. Just a quick note about some changes around the site.
I’ve added some links to people I met at Southby to the sidebar, as promised last night. Please frequent their sites, or add them to your RSS reader – whatever floats your boat. (I’m still getting the hang of NetNewsWire myself.) And if you happen to be one of those people I met in Austin, and I neglected to add your link, let me know.
Incidentally, I’m generating an RSS feed as well. Lookit the sidebar.
Also, along with implementing some additional anti-comment-spam measures (that shall go nameless, to avoid circumvention), I have disabled anonymous commenting. I’ve been getting too many odd comments that don’t qualify as spam, but are too insulting/derogatory to be considered ‘valid’ comments. So until further notice, you’ll have to enter your name and e-mail address in order to comment (but your e-mail address won’t be displayed in the comments window). Sorry, but my hand was forced.
I also have another project in the works, inspired in part by my Southby experience, but I’m not quite ready to take the lid off that yet…hopefully soon…
EDIT:
Regular readers may have noticed that some comments have been pruned from the site. I can tolerate quite a bit, but when the comments get abusive, they’re gonna go. And get added to the Blacklist. And get their IP banned.
I’ve never wanted to put restrictions on my readers’ ability to comment – all I’ve ever really cared about is that the conversation stays on topic. I recently instituted a requirement for name and e-mail address, but only to cut down on abusive comments, and hopefully only for a limited time. I don’t want to have to require registration at a site like TypeKey, but if that’s what it takes…
Mate, it is not necessary to “threaten” your friends by making more work for yourself. I suppose I may, upon occasion, take a joke too far, as did the “attitude” of Letterman, but you used to recognise his humour for what it was, and not cry “foul”. Perhaps I’ll lay off for now. Enjoy your life, and please remember, this is only the internet. This is NOT reality.
Graham
OK, “mate”, how, precisely, are you my friend? Do we know each other? Have we met in person? Did I do some form of grievous harm to you years ago, resulting in your lurking on my blog today?
Let’s be clear on something. I’m not threatening my friends. My friends respect this space, and I respect theirs. You, on the other hand, have done nothing but put on this false net.persona and make off topic, smartass remarks. (Oh, and you proved that you’re a big man, using WhoIs to find my street address. That didn’t win you any points.) So if I have to result to draconian measures to ensure that my space is respected, I’ll do just that.
Now either come clean or go pester someone else.
You’ve been generating an RSS feed for a long time.
Alright, I’m going to offer up an apology. There is no punchline here. This was supposed to be a goof, at worst, I was meaning to a minor pest, joking around, partially because I feel that people online sometimes take themselves too seriously. I used to be like that as well. But I can see that this is truly affecting you and upsetting you, and that’s not cool. Again, there is no punchline here. There was a specific reason I singled you out, M-D, but I feel that at this point I should just leave you alone.
Take care, and I truly am sorry.
Well…
Now I’m just confused.