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"Less than a day earlier, they had absolutely no idea what was coming yet they managed to pull all this together in record time." How is he sure that they had
by feelin_googley 9y ago
"Less than a day earlier, they had absolutely no idea what was coming yet they managed to pull all this together in record time."
How is he sure that they had no knowledge?
What if they knew but were just waiting for someone with a blog or a Twitter account to make the "discovery"?
In any event, none of this would have happened if email addresses had not been collected.
There is no need to collect email addresses in order to allow internet users to post comments. Requiring email addresses serves no benefit to the user. It is just more gratuitous data collection. Data which eventually becomes the subject of yet another "data breach blog" entry.
- philh 9y ago> It serves no benefit to the user. Persistent identity -> password-protected account -> email for recovery. I certainly wish more places would make email addresses optional, but there is value in collecting them.
- EpicEng 9y agoWhy do I care about any of that? I just want to leave a comment on some random blog and maybe read a couple of replies. I have backed out of commenting numerous times because of this nonsense.
- philh 9y agoIf you personally don't care, then it provides no value to you. That's fine. In that case you can hope that the blog allows anonymous commenting, which the blog author may or may not want to provide for various reasons. And I would hope disqus offers them that choice. But even if it doesn't, there are many users who are not you and whose commenting patterns are not yours, and email collection still adds value for them.
- EpicEng 9y agoI imagine very few users care about having a Disqus account. It's not a feature intended to make the user's experience a better one.
- KGIII 9y agoSpam reduction. They often require email authentication and this makes it more difficult to submit spam.