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The often thoughtful and usually civil comments are one of the best features of GGW, which I enjoy just as much as the actual articles.

We've occasionally had guest authors who make controversial points in their articles but who don't ever show back up to respond to what often seems to be very valid criticism. I'd like guest authors to be reminded that interactivity via the comments is one of the strengths of GGW and that they ought to participate in the discussion of their own articles.

As far as I know, we haven't had any problems with spoofing of displayed names, but there don't seem to be any barriers that would prevent this, and there are a number of regular commenters here who ought to have exclusive use of the name under which they've been commenting. What about a formal username/ login system? I see the downside of requiring a login to post, but then it might be possible to see the most recent comments by a particular commenter, or have a list of commenters you follow, or some such.

by thm on Jul 27, 2012 4:58 pm • link • report

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