We recently decided to add commenting to our application. This made me immediately nervous as I suspected that within a few milliseconds of going live our website would be flooded by troll comments talking about how our mom's wore army boots when they fixed their Ford, or other such nonsense. As much as a right of passage as this would be, I do believe it is something to be avoided if possible (it probably isn't) or at least minimized.
We discussed this as a group briefly and decided that our approach would be to make commenting a function for logged in users (the log in being through a google account. This means that while there is no real protection from dedicated trolls, at least the veil of anonymity will be removed and if they want to postulate on the state of footwear of our mothers, at least they will have a name.
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