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I started reading Fleshbot on and off at the beginning of this year and one thing I never liked about it was the fact that they didn’t allow for any comments. Well, yesterday Fleshbot finally launched their comments:

While conventional wisdom holds that looking at pornography is generally a solitary activity, a recent report we just made up here at Fleshbot Central suggests that a substantial majority of our readers are tired of furtively clicking through acres of skin on their monitors by themselves and long for the sort of companionship and interaction that only sharing their most intimate thoughts about bukkake and celebrity breast exposure with hundreds of thousands of strangers can provide. So we’re pleased to announce that starting today, you’ll find a “Comments” link at the bottom of every post on Fleshbot.

If you’ve already received an invitation to comment on one (or more) of the fine family of Gawker Media sites, you know how our comment system works; if you haven’t, check out the Fleshbot Comments FAQ for more information. We’ll be sending out our first batch of invites this afternoon.

And never let it be said that we don’t care about you. Because we do.

So naturally I was quite excited to see how Gawker Media sites regulate their comments system and went to check out the FAQ. It turns out that they have a priority system that only allows comments from certain people who have been directly invited by them or who have been referred by one of the invitees. Now, I can see how this worked for Gmail, but comments on Fleshbot?

Does anyone care enough about leaving comments on Fleshbot to e-mail all his/her friends and ask who has an invite to get a refferal? I highly doubt it. What kind of comment would you leave on Fleshbot besides “nice tits/ass!” anyways?

All I can say is- too little too late.

I believe that comment systems should be open to the public. Sure, the blog owner should have every right to delete derogatory comments where they see fit, but why should comments be monitored to a point where they are only open to certain users. I can understand that perhaps this is a precaution to prevent comment spam, but there are other ways to ensure you don’t get that kind of junk.

There is nothing I hate more than visiting people with blogs and going to leave positive feedback only to find out that I can’t leave a comment because I don’t have a Blogger account. Do me a favour people, if you have a blog… open your comments to the world!

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