The blogosphere is made up of all kinds of people. Recently a fellow blogger was not comfortable with the way WordPress accepts comments. The “email required” option scared him off. Actually it did more than scare him off. He accused me of harvesting emails for spam. How rude!
Tomcat99 says, “Why on earth do you want email addresses anyway? I cant think of any reason other than to spam them.”
For the record, I do not harvest emails. When you comment on this blog the Wordpress platform requires you to enter a name, email, and website address (optional) in order to post a comment. Who says either the name you leave or the email you supply have to be correct? The required email is not really required as it doesn’t have to be a “real” email.
It is always nice when someone leaves their real email. This way, I can contact them to pass on awards or just to say hi, but “email” is really not a required field.
Anyway I did not build the Wordpress platform I merely use it, so if someone wants to complain about the “email required” field let them complain to the programmer.
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7 responses so far ↓
Wrote: Jun 12, 2008 at 1:03 pm
Wow! That is rude.
Honestly, I never gave a thought to my email address being required. So many things you do on the internet require one that I kind of expect it.
Wrote: Jun 12, 2008 at 6:06 pm
My wife doesnt even user her email address when she comments on my site! I guess the guy or girl in this instance has not touched many wordpress blogs.
Wrote: Jun 12, 2008 at 6:06 pm
I don’t use wordpress, so can’t really talk to this topic. I figure if a person doesn’t want to give out his email address, thas his choice—-but hey by refusing to—-makes them out to be kinda standoffish, so who needs em?
Wrote: Jun 12, 2008 at 8:41 pm
Crazy kids!
Wrote: Jun 13, 2008 at 12:03 am
Well, rude or really uninformed.
Wrote: Jun 13, 2008 at 6:03 am
I don’t mind leaving my e-mail, so I don’t much care. I never thought YOU were “harvesting” them, but given the spam that’s out there, it wouldn’t shock me if others were. Lots of the paranoia out there may be warranted.
Wrote: Jun 13, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Drowsey, Clearly he was uninformed, however that does not ignore the fact that he implied something that was rather rude.
Sy- My son doesn’t use his email either. lol
Roger I can understand he was paranoid. However he should of simply asked why it was required without implying anything.