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Fri, 04/06/2007 - 1:45pm — lambert

In a light-hearted attempt to encourage people to comment using handles, I have adopted SlashDot's policy of setting the default name for users who have not logged in to "anonymous coward."

The default handle used to be "anonymous." Fortunately, this change does not apply retrospectively, so no past commenter who chose to post anonymously need feel any imputation of cowardice, however warranted. Going forward, I think the blog will be better off for this change.

Note that readers without accounts can still comment; but if they don't want their comments to appear under the rubric "anonymous coward," they'll have to fill in a handle of some sort, no matter how wingerly or jejeune. Our policy of open commenting has not changed.

Thanks for your understanding.

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HAhahahahaaaaaaa!

By Xenophon on Fri, 04/06/2007 - 2:12pm

I love it.

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Childish, but fun

By lambert on Fri, 04/06/2007 - 2:20pm

And if it works for SlashDot, why not?

No authoritarians were tortured in the writing of this post.

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"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi

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Cowards of the

By anonymous coward (not verified) on Fri, 04/06/2007 - 5:21pm

Cowards of the world...Unite !!!

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