Kotaku Commenting: Now With Less Elitism
Don't worry, you still have the right to be snobby to all of those non-commenters out there, but the ability to get access to the misty realms of Kotaku commenting is now no longer in the sweaty palms of the site's editors.
Starting today, Kotaku will have a new commenter approval system that will essentially be based on granting permission to people who can offer a comment that is interesting, substantial or highly amusing. (Hmm, I better go check and make sure they're not going to remove my commenting ability.)
Here's how it will work:
People who want to comment, including those without access, just type in their comment and then enter a username and password. After hitting the submit button, the posts made by people not in the system will be whisked away to Sugar Plum Mountain where a bevy of gelatinous blobs will trundle the comment off to the Grand Gingersnap Prince for inspection. If the comment is deemed worthy the Prince will confer honorary membership on you and send your candy-glossed comment through a series of tubes back to the fiefdom of Kotaku where it will go live.
From there on out the witty commenter will enjoy all of the rights and blessing of full commentingdom at Castle Kotaku.
Speaking of commentingdom, the avatars appear to not be working. It might take awhile for your various and sundry cache's to clear and see all the marvelously tiny images, but they're there. Also, if you can't seem to comment, try clearing your cache, that seems to fix most problems. Actually, clear your cache just for the hell of it, maybe people will start loving you again.
Now's probably a good time to point out that while I no longer have to handcraft each invite in the steaming innards of my home entertainment center, I still am in full possession of the ban stick and I plan on using it liberaly.
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