news.gnome.org again

[Cody Russell <bratsche gnome org>]

I think news.gnome.org should remove the user comments feature entirely,
and become strictly a news reporting site.  As far as I can tell, the
comments feature is used almost exclusively by trolls.  Every time I
look on this site, I am saddened and today I began reading some of the
comments under the "Reef Project Announcement" headline and it just
pissed me off.  We have comments like "i wish eazel would go away",
"who's up for stopping the downward spiralling of the gnome project",
"EAZEL is turning GNOME to a piece of shit".  Sure, there are also
comments from reasonable people (mostly just trying to correct stupid
things said by stupid people, most of whom won't listen to reason anyway
I think) but you really have to dig into the comments before you find
them.  I think the initial impression of the user comment system is,
"These people are all idiots."

This stuff is just using GNOME machine resources and is doing nothing
useful.  Furthermore, I think it's harmful because it makes GNOME's
websites look very unprofessional, and even very immature.  We obviously
can't moderate the user comments, so I think they should just be removed
entirely.

Cody / bratsche