A few weeks back I was hit with hundreds of really great comments from people using the names of friends who comment here frequently. The problem was that the URL associated with the comment pointed to sites I had never heard of.
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I have talked to a few of these friends and they were not the source of the comments so in fairness to my friends I am going to remove their names from the comments and the offending URL. I will leave the comments though since I do not want to set a precedent of deleting other people’s work even if this case involved deception. There is a principle here.
That leaves a few sticky comments though, because a few names are quite common and it is possible that some of these are legit. What I am going to do is visit the site and see if the name shows up there. I am also going to check if the referred site has comments enabled. Then I am going to guess. If you have commented since July 1st and notice that I anonymized your comment, let me know and I will fix it.
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