Until now I’ve had a very laid back comments policy, I allowed anonymous commenting, swearing, and general shitbaggery, but now I’ve decided to have enough. Taking inspiration from The Sun Chronicle, Richard Murphy, and Blizzard, in order to tell me how fucking wrong I am, you will now have to take the following steps:
1. Email me scanned in copies of your birth certificate, passport, driving license, and personal planner for the next 6 months.
2. Send, by unrecorded mail, a minimum of £20 cash to an address that, for privacy reasons, shall only be given to interested parties (cus, only my privacy counts, innit).
3. This allows you commenting permissions, as long as you agree with me on all issues stated. You will be explicitly liable for any legal ramifications, and all your disclosed information will be publicly viewable in your public profile.
In all seriousness, though, what the fuck is happening to blogs and the media when you can’t even leave a god damn comment anymore without jumping through hoops? The Sun Chronicle wants to make you pay to fucking comment, under your credit card’s name, Blizzard recently had their ass handed to them by their customer base with their idiotic “Use real names to prevent trolls” idea, and Richard Murphy is Richard Murphy. If this attitude takes over blogging at large, there’ll be absolutely no point in blogging at all anymore.
As far as I’m concerned, a blog with no comments isn’t a blog at all. It’s a god damn glorified newspaper column.
I has de-newspapered you.