Saturday, December 11, 2004

D'oh!

I've had a few complaints from people who have wanted to post comments on Threshold, but were unwilling to register, and complaints from others who did register because they had to go through the bother of registering.
All along I thought it was some sort of official Blogger policy, and was myself a little annoyed by it, since I hate having to register on Web sites.
For example, I had to register at Wal Mart's Web site the other day just to find out what the balance is on the gift card my brother gave me for Christmas.
There was another site I was looking at the other day, for a FREE newspaper, which required registering just to read the articles.
So I hate the whole registration thing, and was actually going to write an entry decrying Blogger's lame-ass registration policy.
...
Today I went into my settings and discovered that at any time I could have set Threshold to accept anonymous posts.
Whoops.
Okay, so technically it's my fault, but, um, well...Damn Blogger for setting the default to not allowing anonymous posts! Come on, who's with me? Boo, Blogger! Boo, default settings!
*Sigh*
Anyway, I have adjusted the settings and anonymous posts are now allowed, so feel free to flame away with vitriolic posts delineating the reasons that I'm a total dumbass, and know that you can do so with impunity.
After all, that's what what anonymity is for, right? Anonymity gives you the freedom to say whatever you want without fear of reprisal.
Being anonymous makes you brave, doesn't it? Yeah, I get it. So you're a big shot now, huh? Come on out in the open and say that, punk! Oh, you're so tough when you're hiding behind some unregistered, made up, pussy name, aren't you?
But seriously, feel free to comment anonymously.
Though a REAL man would register.
I'm just sayin' is all...

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Registering for stuff sucks! I would like to hold on to the (probably incorrect) notion that I have some small degree of privacy left. That there are a few places where the government and corporations don't know exactly what I'm doing. (www.bugmenot.com is a good resource to use for those online newspapers, BTW)

Anonymous said...

Well, if I say something like, "This is Tundra Bitch," I'm sure you won't have a hard time figuring out who it is. I also hate registering as I have precious little time to myself...I will not waste it on some machine that just wants to keep tallies.

Thank you, it's about time you figure this whole thing out.

Anonymous said...

Yeah!!! Anonymity RULES!!!

-Scott Hawks