Test, test, test: Comments enabled
Quiet drum roll, please
After months of waiting, we're testing story comments. Slowly. Comments are enabled on two stories right now. More of them to come tomorrow.
Please. It's a work in progress.
Here's the deal: You have to register to leave a comment. The registration is light and takes about 30 seconds. We ask for your name, e-mail, whether you're a newspaper subscriber and whether you want some of our targeted news and advertising information. Other stuff -- gender, age and zip -- are helpful to us but optional.
Registration is just for those who interact with us by leaving comments. The site will remain open to all users. You can still be able to read stories, blogs, etc.
We're not collecting e-mails to spam you and the data we collect will not be sold. We will use the info to target news, information and advertising more surgically. And after some of the experiences we have had with the blogs, we want to have legitimate e-mail addresses for commenters.
The registration and the comments are beta. We'd like to test for bugs and eliminate obstacles. Help us, with both the registration process and the comments.
Comments (4)
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Are you guys doing the whole.. email validation? That's one way to do it, although there are still blackhole services.
Posted on December 7, 2006 6:09 PM
Knock it off, dm. Give 'em a prop. They deserve it, after all of this drama.
Yay, John!
Posted on December 7, 2006 9:16 PM
darkmoon,
We *are* using email validation for now to throttle flooding a bit, though we hope to implement a somewhat more elegant solution as time and tools allow.
Thanks for your interest, and your feedback and suggestions are always welcome.
-- Steve Paschall, Sr. Developer, NRinteractive
Posted on December 8, 2006 9:19 AM
Thanks, Sue, but the credit goes to Stephen. He had to create a massive work around to get this to happen.
Posted on December 8, 2006 9:33 AM