WHY DOESNT HNN ALLOW READERS TO POST COMMENTS USING A PSEUDONYM?
Among the great strengths of HNN are our discussion boards, which are free wheeling, often imaginative, and usually stimulating. But it can equally be said that the discussion boards in the past were one of the great weaknesses of HNN. Too often they featured hyperbola instead of thoughtfulness, vile vulgar language, and rank racist or anti-Semitic barbs. The question we faced was how to fix the boards so that we kept what worked while ridding ourselves of what was patently offensive. We tried several measures. We introduced rules of civility. We began removing offensive comments. We banned a small number of serial rabble rousers. And still the discussion boards became havens for comments so patently offensive they made grown people cringe. In a renewed effort to put an end to trash talk on HNN we finally decided to turn to a technological solution by implementing a registration system. In order to post comments on HNN’s discussion boards, readers must register their email address and
WHY DOESNT HNN ALLOW READERS TO POST COMMENTS USING A PSEUDONYM?