Comments on comments

I firmly believe that the comments section of a blog should be as open as possible, not restricted by passwords or limited to Letchworth players or supporters, so that as free a range of discussion as possible should be allowed. However recently a growing number of, at times, silly comments by anonymous contributors (especially anonymous contributors pretending to be club members) to some debates has begun to annoy some people in the team.

So (as a trial) all new anonymous comments will be deleted - not just abusive remarks, as now. This means that you will have to enter a name or nickname of some sort. As a means of controlling abuse of the systems its about as low key as you can get, and if it works then fine. If not then there are other weapons available - including tracing back URLs if need be - which could be a bit tedious but something I am quite happy to do in order to keep a lid on things.