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Anonymous Comments To be Disabled

Posted on September 21st, 2008 in Misc – 44 Comments

Following a lot of request, I´ve decided to disable the anonymous posting of comments on VirtualR. In the past months, this blog has not just turned out to be a busy news source but also a place of communication for the community. I´m very happy to see people help each other and have healthy discussions around here.

Sadly, a few users are hiding behind anonymity to post insults or wind up other people, especially in “hot-topics” involving arguments between different mod groups and such. Since these few started to spoil it for everyone, I´ve decided to shut down the anonymous posting on Sunday evening.

In order to keep on commenting, you´ll have to sign-up to VirtualR. Registration will take less than 10 seconds, you will not have to give away any personal data and will never receive any unwanted e-mails or anything else. I realise that this is no perfect protection against “trolls”, but it makes it much easier to ban people that try to stir up trouble.

I really hope that this will not hurt the comment-frequency around here as I very much enjoy every single comment. Hopefully, this will even improve the disscusion-quality as nobody will be hiding behind anonymity. Let me know what you think of this change, anonymous comments will be active for another 24 hours. You can already register to VirtualR to have your account ready if you wish:

Click Here to Register to VirtualR.net


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  • GeraArg

    OK :smile:

  • Anonymous

    -1

  • http://www.bsim-racing.com BSR-WiX

    nice way to make the comment section cleaner. a good chaoice

  • Anonymous

    :cry:

  • gears

    :grin:

  • Anonymous

    I’ll take the chance to post my last anonymous comment. Actually it’s also my first. :grin:

  • jam

    hello

  • Gaiajohan

    Thank you :) :grin:

  • Anonymous

    :D

  • Doomrider

    Aye, I hope this will root out some troublemakers.

  • DRat

    Thanks – it’s about time!

  • RKipker

    I think it’s a great idea, and thabks for a great site and update information. A Daily stop for me. :cool:

  • http://www.gamer-crib.com Alex291190

    Yea, Great choice :cool: :grin:

  • timwheatley

    Thanks Montoya.

  • gears

    “anonymous comments will be active for another 24 hours.”

    LOL I see some people thought they were “smart” but I guess they didn’t read to the end of the post. :lol:

  • http://www.drivingitalia.net/ Uff

    Well done.

  • Anonymous

    -2
    :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?:

  • http://www.racinglinedevelopments.com the.cosmic.pope

    :mrgreen:

  • Arnold Carter Wong

    I think it’s good, at least we won’t have so many useless comments as before.

  • Pinje

    I think this is a good idea, seen some totally useless posts and far to many that are just abusive. Good work Montoya! :smile:

  • Bram

    Great stuff Montoya, this will make the comments a lot cleaner I hope :)

  • Anonymous

    hmmm last time i will be posting as anonymous

  • 6e66o

    good decision :!:

  • DeDios

    thanks montoya ;)

  • http://markus-moeller.de MarkusM

    thanx :smile: this site is just too great and useful, to be occupied by trolls.

  • http://racingrenders.com F1Racer

    Great news. Thanks Montoya. This is a wise move.
    This can only help things as long as people aren’t making multiple accounts etc.

  • Anonymous

    feels better now…

  • Mark

    Thanks Montoya :!:

  • Anonymous

    Sucks…

  • Anonymous

    TEST TEST TEST :grin:

  • a nony mous
  • http://www.autogaming.net Brad

    Well you can clearly see the idiot “Anonymous” spamming this place. Certainly a good decision.

  • Anonymous

    suckers :mrgreen:

  • Anonymous

    :?:

  • http://www.pontodeignicao.com.br Felipe Mafra

    Sure this is a good decision, just like Brad said. :)

  • Anonymus

    :idea:

  • http://www.virtualr.net Montoya

    Since most of you seem to agree with this and the last anonymous spam comments have been made, anonymous commenting is now off!

    Thanks to all of you who signed up already! :smile:

  • http://gtevo.blogspot.com/ GTEvo

    :idea:

  • GeraArg

    Next step…

    A Forum. :mrgreen: :cool:

  • stabiz

    Not a bad idea, cant have to many forums to use the entire day browsing in. :grin:

  • http://www.virtualr.net Montoya

    There will be no forum as they´re a lot of great sim racing forums around the net already

    VirtualR will always be a simple, straightforward news place and I think the current comment system suits that :smile:

  • Bram

    I think VirtualR is perfect as it is now. Expanding only causes loss of focus (plus that right now its probably nicely doable for Montoya as a hobby ;) )

  • deej

    One thought: registration is so easy that the anonymous posters can quickly create multiple accounts though.

  • Ragster

    Good luck with this Montoya :grin: .

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