Beginning Friday, Feb. 1, we’ll require users of Kansas.com to log in to the site to make a comment on a story.
This has long been suggested by our users as a way to limit the number of profane, violent and generally irresponsible comments made on our comment boards. And for almost just as long, it has been our goal to institute such a system. Now that site registration has debuted on Kansas.com and several thousand of you have registered, it is possible for us to do this.
If you are not logged in, you’ll be able to read the story comments; you just won’t be able to make one. Once you are logged in, your Kansas.com username will be automatically signed to any comment you make. For now, this only applies to comments on stories on our main www.kansas.com site. We plan to have a similar system in place for our blogs, on blogs.kansas.com, within a couple of weeks. Our discussion forums, which have always required a separate log-in, are not changing.
If you’re not already registered as a Kansas.com user, now is a great time to do that. Start at http://www.kansas.com/register/.
One Comment
I left the discussion forums, signing in didn’t stop flamers and nonsense posting. I got tired of always signing in.
Yahoo is doing something, click a box to stay signed in for 14 days. Might research that.
If WeBlog is going to the sign in process, I’m done posting there.