{"id":1053,"date":"2006-07-13T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-13T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2006\/07\/anonymous-comments-critical-co.html"},"modified":"2006-07-13T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-13T22:30:00","slug":"anonymous-comments-critical-co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2006\/07\/anonymous-comments-critical-co.html","title":{"rendered":"Anonymous Comments = Critical Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess this is a naive new blogger type observation but it&#8217;s amazing to me how cowardly people are about making critical comments.  I have to give it to Patrick, he was bold and brave enough to post under a name.  It may not even have been his but at least he wasn&#8217;t anonymous.  It makes me respect him more.<br \/>\nAnonymous commenters, it is hard to take what you have to say to heart because you are not a real person to me.  I just think of you as a voice calling from a dark alley and even if you say something that is not that bad (as was the case yesterday), I still look at it with suspicion because you chose to engage in public discourse under the cover of darkness.   Yech, it&#8217;s kind of slimy.  And I have the added feeling of revulsion when I see anonymous comments because the spam bot leaves anonymous comments &#8212; I&#8217;m having a pavlovian response to anonymous comments now.    Spam or a critical comment, either way it&#8217;s not good!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess this is a naive new blogger type observation but it&#8217;s amazing to me how cowardly people are about making critical comments. I have to give it to Patrick, he was bold and brave enough to post under a name. It may not even have been his but at least he wasn&#8217;t anonymous. 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