Who's who in Whoville
Interesting to see that Sandy Carmany has shifted to a registration policy for comments on her blog.
Here's what she said about that:
I'm tired of dealing with anonymous commenters who hide behind their anonymity to put forward sometimes ridiculous accusations against various people. Thus I have changed my comments settings, and future commenters will have to register in order to comment on this blog. Hopefully that will help foster a bit more responsibility when comments are submitted. (I have belatedly noted that many of you wiser, more experienced bloggers placed this requirement on your blogs long ago.)
I feel Sandy's pain and have addressed the anonymity issue on this blog before, wondering why people prefer clever handles to real names. That stirred considerable dissent (among, of course, anonymous commenters); I wish people would have the courage to come clean on who they are.
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Kind of like 52%+ of anonymous voters who decided that history wasn't made at a lunch counter.
Loved the picture of the GSO "power brokers" with the look of disbelief on their faces. Another time, another era.
Posted on November 8, 2006 10:54 AM
I'm not sure voting and blog comments are analagous.
Posted on November 9, 2006 1:59 PM
Whatever anybody wants to say, there is no denying history was made in this city at a lunch counter. We all should in fact be proud of what happened here. Anytime people rise up against people who are oppressing (whether the people who are doing the oppresssing are doing it out of tradition, ignorance, stupidity, malignant intent, or just because they can) them and say they aren't going to take it anymore it should be applauded. After all, if it wasn't for this behavior we'd still be speaking the Queen's English, drinking tea everyday at 4pm instead of Red Bull, and listening to the Smiths.
The failure of this referendum, was a direct reflection of the people who are handling the money, the past financial debacles and various financial hoci poci which have seemingly, and perhaps unfairly, been attibuted to prominent members of the minority community in the past.
This project must be embraced by the total community and perhaps maybe started again at ground zero with completely new personell involved.
Posted on November 10, 2006 9:54 AM