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Re: "The only real way to stop," I don't entirely agree. News sites could approach their comments like they approach their letters to the editor, and ask for th
by freejoe76 17y ago
Re: "The only real way to stop," I don't entirely agree. News sites could approach their comments like they approach their letters to the editor, and ask for the phone number of new members.
Verifying every phone number would be a lot of work, so you don't do that. Just verify the folk who post more than, say, 5 comments.
- adatta02 17y agoCraigslist verifies every phone number in order to post in certain sections. It probably isn't to hard.
- thinkbohemian 17y agoRequiring phone numbers could be effective. Though no matter what technology you use there will be a way to get around it. I think a good case study of a community promoting non-anonymous comments is facebook. They use very little in the way of technology to prevent flamewars and spam, mostly it is user culture.