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Clutter (none / 0) (#3)
by Anonymous User on Mon Jun 30, 2008 at 06:40:22 AM PDT

Your earlier story, "Barracuda Sneakwrap has a nasty bite", had had 29 comments as recently as last Friday. Imagine my surprise today to find that it has received 15-20 new comments in only three days.

Turns out to be one single wack-job who has replied to half the pre-existing comments ... in Chinese or something equally unintelligible to me and, no doubt, to most of us here.

Is there no way to avoid that kind of clutter? I suppose suggesting enforcing English-comments-only will just bring charges of racism or similarly, even though a) 99% of those who will have something useful to contribute will be capable of writing sufficiently-intelligible English and b) the whole readership can be assumed to be able to read it, since the top-level articles are only written in English, but only a small fraction will be able to read anything else.



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