Anonymous comments: allow or disallow?

[jecook]

Since the subject came up, I think it's time to ask the community at large:

should we, your (benevolent) moderator team disable anonymous comments? Currently, all anon comments are screened; only the moderator team and the original poster can see them.

So, What say you?

Edit: the populace has spoken, and with a rather large margin, I might add:

4 votes for keeping status quo (anon comments screened) and 26 for disallowing anon.

As for switching to a fully moderated community (i.e., first post moderated) I'll look into the feasibility of it, but that would add a bit of workload.

I'll also check with the feasibility of making comments membership only as well.

What happened to the AC post?

[sidruid.livejournal.com]

Remember the post last week that started...
From: $user who for whatever reason came in on Monday when no one else was in the building.
To: IT Dept.
Re: A/C constantly running.

Just out of curiousity, why was it deleted?

(Google Cache)

(Google Search for URL: plenty of links)

More porn :(

[combat-taco.livejournal.com]

The other day I was setting up a harmony universal remote for a new client at her ex-husband's house, while she was doing his laundry. I hope when I'm divorced that my ex-wife comes over and does my laundry... jesus fucking christ.

Anyway, she had really cute kids who were climbing all over me, and asking me a bazillion questions and wanting to play with my blackberry. Against my better judgment I let one of them play Arkanoid on it and he ran off, leaving two kids behind to scream and run around and make general havoc. With at least one of the distractions gone, I started the arduous task of rewiring her entire home theater system, made more difficult by the botched job her ex-brother-in-law had done. After getting everything setup correctly (for the most part), I asked her if she had a video cassette tape to make sure the vcr worked. She went to her ex's shelf and got "King Arthur", and, stupidly, without looking I put in the tape. I guess I had wired the video cabling wrong because nothing came on the screen, but the audio worked.

"OooOOh,,, UNNG.. YEAH EYAH EYAH OOOOOOOOOO"

Porn. It took me about five seconds, the longest five seconds of my life. In that five seconds that woman and I shared a look of sheer, unrivaled terror as her two daughters will still playing five feet from us. I pushed the power button as soon as it donned on me.

That was not King Arthur.

When I ejected the tape I saw the label on it just said "ALL MODELS OVER 18". At least this time I didn't give these five year old kids an eyeful in front of their mother.

She thought it was pretty funny.

I swear users are potentially dyslexic

[afreak2600.livejournal.com]

One of the most unusual things that I come across is that users cannot read what is on their computer screens. I can understand someone not being able to find the start button, Internet Explorer, or some other half-assed concoction from Microsoft, but it's another when one cannot read what is said on the screen.

For instance, I ask the subscriber what it says when she attempts to download their e-mail. I'll get something along the lines of "POP server has rejected the connection." What else does it say? "Nothing." Of course, just after that sentence, it'll say something along the lines of "time-out" or "password incorrect." Yes. It may be contained in that little section there that may be a bit complex, but it tells you why!

Or the other one where I ask what their browser is. If it isn't "Windows," I get "Foxfire." What the fuck is "Foxfire?" I swear to God that either users are supposed to be borderline dyslexic or they're actually illiterate and somehow can guess half of what it says.