We all know that email attracts SPAM. Well websites with Forums and Comments do as well. In the last few months this site has been getting more and more SPAM comments.
Hopefully you don’t see any of them as I try to block them with some filters and regular reviewing of the logs. However, these filters are imperfect and often embargo real comments until I can get around to review them. My apologies if you no longer see your comments going up on the site immediately, but trust me, they will go up… unless….
You don’t use a real email address!
Just this morning I released four well reasoned comments where the author declined to leave their real name (which I don’t like, but allow) but also gave me bogus email addresses. I have allowed them to be published this one time, but I know your IP address and will block anyone who does that in the future. The email is not published, but allows me to know that you are a real person who is part of the community.
Therefore, I recommend the following etiquette:
- Use your real name where possible. If you cannot for whatever reason, use the same pseudonym consistently so it doesn’t appear that you are an angry mob.
- Use you real email address at all times it isn’t published, but let’s the site Administrator know its a real person.
Thank you.
Comments
Sir,
Thank you for posting the comments which were sent to you on an anonymous basis. The comment regarding Tesco does not seem to appear.
This writing is intended for you, Sir, to support my anonymous posting.
Hopefully, you considered the postings to be helpful in the Community's debate about the particular topics.
The hurdle to writing a name to a posting is the rules and regulations which are imposed on me in my workplace. I have to comply with those or I will be out of work or with reduced income prospects. St. Margarets has a family friendly community which is rare in London in general. Living in St. Margarets is expensive so my income is a key consideration.
In my workplace in Central London, the "culture" is corporate. It could be called "commercial corporate" because it shares no corporate features with the corporate experience of the Church I attend. It seems that the word corporate is adopted to exploit the general understanding of the word and the trust it instills for the purposes of extracting income, rightly earned or unearned, from those paying. If my comments are associated to my role in my workplace it will have a negative impact on my future income or growuth potential.
Having moved in to St. Margarets, I find that colleagues of live in St. Margarets as well. There is the very real possibility of the views finding their way into my workplace nad having a detrimental effect. There have been delaings with tesco for example (not in St. Margarets).
I am not trained as a Politician and cannot claim to have the resources or adequate knowledge to fulfill such a role. So anonymously posting on the St. Margarets website is now the best method for conveying information or views without it having some future negative impact for me.
I don't know if you know but the IP address of some internet providers changes automatically sometimes due to their system of allocating connections to their customers.
Happy Christmas to you.
Comment from A Resident on 2005-12-07 18:54:01 +0000I am aware of the IP issue, but thanks for raising it.
I still wish you would give your real email, as you can see, it is not posted and let's me as an administrator know that the comments are coming from a real person, agenda or no.
Peter @ stmgrts.org.uk on 2005-12-07 21:44:49 +0000