Last week was apparently Sea Otter Awareness Week – I wish I had noticed at the time. I spent an unforgettable time watching a Sea Otter in June 2013 – he or she was sooooo cute! I will never, ever forget those moments.
Almost all of those who comment on this blog are cute too – whether they agree with me or not. However, from now on, I may delete all comments by commenters who don’t submit a real email address when making a comment and/or who do not respond to emails from me. I’m not going to go into details on this – it affects a tiny proportion of comments.
I’m very happy with the numbers and quality of comments on this blog – some comments are simply superb. Please keep them coming.
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I agree Mark.
I have also had a couple of comments on my blog which I did not publish because they came from fake email addresses. I think it comes down to the definition of freedom of expression. Of course, if either of us were blogging anonymously, then it would be hard for us to criticise others for posting comments anonymously, but we are happy to stand by our comments, so other commenters should be too.
Miles – thanks. I don’t mind, at all, people hiding behind a pseudonym – there may be good reasons for that (wishing not to get into trouble with your employer , for example) but what appear to be multiple attempts from the same people to make similar points pretending to be separate independent people isn’t on. Nor is using a fake email so that the owner of the blog cannot communicate with a commenter over some concern.
Yes that’s true Mark.
I have no problems with pseudonymous or anonymous comments, provided that a genuine email address is provided.