Commit Digest and Dot

[Stuart Jarvis]

On Monday 18 April 2011 12:24:05 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> On 2011-04-05 Danny wrote:
> > I agree, it was quite demotivating for me when I did the Digest
> > myself to do all that work and see little or no comments on the Dot,
> > even though I knew it was quite highly read.
> > 
> > As a long time Dot editor, I know the whole backstory surrounding the
> > comment situation, but even taking into account its goals, I
> > consider the policy a failure. I will look at sending an email to
> > the Dot list to start a discussion about this (although i'm not sure
> > how simple technically it is for them to turn off the authentication
> > system now...)
> 
> Afaik anonymous commenting has been turned on for a while on the dot,
> but resulted in quite some spam. I don't know the status of automatic
> anti-spam measures... Maybe someone on www knows?

Seems to be not allowed now - I'm not sure when it was switched off again, I 
don't remember discussion. We can discuss in a dot editor meeting at the promo 
sprint. We have mollom at least for spam detection, but it's not amazing.

I'd be willing to give open comments another go.

Stu