We added the ability to contact us via a widget on this blog months ago and many of you lovely people took the time to send mail. Some were questions, some were compliments, some were insults but none of them could be replied to. So no thank you for compliments/insults and no way to answer the questions which were the majority of the mails we received.
None of us feel very good about being asked a question and not giving that player the answer they need. We set-up the communication function in such a way that we cannot reply to you because you are completely anonymous. That was intentional. The unintended consequences is the one-way nature of that communication is less productive than just leaving a comment which we can reply to.
Please remember to protect yourself online. Your data is valuable. We're also seeing threats of retaliation to users who don't support a genocide or who are against ICE murdering citizens in the US. We don't want anyone to login using their real google account. Your google account, your cellphone, mails, texts, location history and you're smack talk online is all traced to you.
We were horrified to see that discord will require users to upload ID. It's bad enough you need an account that may be attached to your phone to use the platform but face ID or government ID to use a platform should be a deal-breaker.
So moving forward we will still allow comments. There are no restrictions on who can comment. You don't have to sign-up for an account or use your google/wordpress/AIM openID or anything like that.
You can add a name to distinguish yourself from another anonymous commentor. We'd prefer that because it makes things easier but it's up to you. It would also make things easier if another reader wanted to answer your question or provide a different perspective.
The feedback we get from readers is helpful to us especially when it comes to errors. And there will be errors so feel free to continue pointing those out.
donkeyballs
ReplyDeleteThank you for taking this stand. We should all recognize the importance of our right to engage with platforms freely without big brother monitoring our activities under the guise of safety. Our interaction, our choices and our activities are very valuable data points, so we need to keep pushing back against these encroachments on our personal privacy. My attitude has shifted from 'I'm a law abiding citizen, so I have nothing to hide' to 'stop treating us all like criminals (or idiots) who need to be monitored, I'm a law abiding citizen and stay out of my business'.
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