Last week, agent Nathan Bransford mentioned that he is considering disabling anonymous comments on his blog as a result of a couple of trolls who are making inappropriate comments. The response was heated, to say the least. Now, of course, Nathan can do whatever he likes on his own blog. Plus, Nathan has a day job that doesn't involve moderating the hundreds of blog comments to make sure they're all appropriate every single day. Who has the time, right? So whatever he wants to do over there is his business. I'll still read the blog, regardless of what Nathan decides about anonymous comments, because it's entertaining and useful, a win/win of blogs, if you will. But I don't think I'll be posting over there anymore.* Why not? Not because I'm some ideologue who assumes that she has the right to say whatever she wants wherever she wants. (I don't.) Not because I'm "taking a stand" against the banning of anonymous comments. It's Nath
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