1) A thought provoking article by Shaun Press in his respected
BLOG.
"Worth revisiting my policy on comments/spam on my blog, for those who came in late.
The comments section to this blog is not moderated, which means that any comments added to a post appear immediately. It is also possible to post anonymously in the comments section, and not only is their no restriction on this, the posts are truly anonymous (ie I do not know who has made an anonymous post). Of course you are able to (and encouraged to) identify yourself in any post you make, especially if you are looking for a reply from me. While I think the mark of an interesting blog is interaction between author and readers, I have a personal policy of not responding to anonymous posts (even when I really, really want to). So you have the freedom to post anonymously, I just exercise my freedom to ignore you.
Of course this policy does allow spam to pop up in the comments section. This has become more frequent recently. Some of it is relatively innocuous (such as the banal 'I think your blog is better now' type 'testing' posts to see if I am moderating), to the annoying 'come and visit my possibly criminal website'. In the end I'm not going to pull these posts as you can simply skim over them, or see them for the dross that they are. As for comments which may be abusive or offensive, they seem to be a rarity on this blog (especially compared to foums which have a moderation policy that professes to deal with them). Again I wil leave them there, although I do sometime attach a *not safe for work* tag the post, again leaving up to you own judgement about what you can and cannot read.
Overall, while the amount of comments on this blog are fairly light, they are normally pretty good, and I encourage anyone with a point of view to add to the debate. "
Once again I do request that anonymous contributors on this blog get names (indeed I think AR should ban all anonymous commenting). It is helpful to us in evaluating feedback to know how much of it is coming from independent commentators and how much (and I suspect the post commenting about Brian Jones is a case in point) is coming from familiar suspects hiding behind anonymity.
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2) A complainer in Amiel Rosario's
BLOG
"Once again I do request that anonymous contributors on this blog get names (indeed I think AR should ban all anonymous commenting). It is helpful to us in evaluating feedback to know how much of it is coming from independent commentators and how much (and I suspect the post commenting about Brian Jones is a case in point) is coming from familiar suspects hiding behind anonymity. "
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3) The ACF Newletter
Ozchess link is banned.
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4) Chesschat