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Comment registration lame idea for law blogs

By Kevin OKeefe

A law firm asked today about the possibility of requiring readers to register before being permitted to post a comment. Apparently a lawyer in the firm saw registration required for comments on a newspaper's blog. Bad idea. Here's why. Comment registration is not used on the vast majority of blogs. LexBlog has over 300 law blogs with over 800 lawyer authors. None have comment registration. Includes solo's to the largest law firm in the country.Readers will look at comment registration with great suspicion wondering why your law firm is asking for information before allowing comments. Some newspapers require registration because their business departments are demanding demographic info (age, sex, and zip code) to supply to advertisers. Such a practice is viewed negatively as discussed in previous posts of mine here and here...continue to full post

Full post as published by Real Lawyers : Have Blogs on February 21, 2008 (boomark / email).