Abuse of The News Comments

[Hurdur]

Nice job on missing the entire point of the post, though. I'm not talking about going out into the 'real world'. I'm talking about finding an online on-the-side journalism job sometime. If you look at my post, though, you'd see I'm not covering up my failures, because I did say I'm too busy right now, meaning I haven't started looking around yet. I can't have 'failed' if I haven't even given it a shot yet. Either way, it probably won't affect my chances of getting a job, because even though the majority of people I know online know me by the forum nick Graal (a nick that I haven't seen used a lot on the internet so far), it's going to be the article they request me to write as an 'interview' that determines whether I get a job or not. So you've got a point there, even though you missed the entire point of my post.

If you have any hope of getting into the journalism world, I suggest you stop writing with such attitude, it's good to have attitude, if people can see the cynicism and wit behind it all, but if you carry on the way you do, your articles will be unpleasant to read.

When you do get time, then check out eGamer.co.za, they have openings for people wanting to start out in game journalism, I have a friend and he's quite a self-centred know it all (in reality he's a really not very popular at all, in reality he's just a stereotypical computer geek fattie with glasses who gets really depressed because he cannot be with a girl who he desperately wants. Rajman you funny lad.), and you aren't half as self-absorbed as he is (from what I can tell) so I'm sure you shouldn't have a hassle getting an internship

[Graal]

Oh, don't get it wrong. I'm probably every bit as much a prat as he is, I just tend to hide it slightly better. :P

[Prometheus]

This is still going on? Why not just use Disqus, apparently easy to implement and already has a large user base.

[tpex]

still waiting

[Hurdur]

This is still going on? Why not just use Disqus, apparently easy to implement and already has a large user base.

What is Disqus? How does it work?

[Graal]

Forces you to log in using your facebook, twitter and similar social networking details to comment. As far as I know, the option for anonymity is still there, but it will certainly eliminate the imposters in that those of us being imitated on the site can just post using our real details and peoplewould immediately know when the imposter posts as us.

[Prometheus]

What is Disqus? How does it work?

Head over to techcentral to see an implementation of it. You register an account using your email or one of the major authentication methods and can then comment on any site using it. I don't know if you can comment anonymously, probably if the site moderator allows it. I was even able to claim all my other comments that I made with the same email addy.

Will cut down tremendously on the reputationless troll posts as you can then follow where someone is commenting.

[Prometheus]

Ignore for now. Endless problems from Disqus users and all the posts I made using it just went poof though it shows them when I make them. Funny it was ready to claim the 40 posts I made previously and they are still there, but it's like I don't exist when I should be listed with the second most posts.

[shadowfox]

Depends on how you implement it I suppose. I'm using it on my WP based blog and it's a dream for me - it's almost completely eliminated the spam I've been having to deal with (2 spam posts in a month compared to the 50 - 80 dailies). It also uses my own comment database, so even if Disqus does decide to die at some point all the comments aren't lost.

[Graal]

Can you guys set up the login system in a way that if someone tries to register a nick that is already registered on the forums, he has to enter the password for the corresponding forum profile? I know it's a lot of extra work, but it will certainly nip the troll problem in the bud. The trolls are probably going to jump to nab our nicks before we get a chance to register them for ourselves, and then the trolling is just going to go on in full earnest.