A note from The Bee about ModestoFamous.com

Most likely in an effort to help battle spam and control content, The Modesto Bee now requires that ModestoFamous.com users login or register an account to leave comments. This was tried when the site first started up and was a miserable failure. I hope that people don't mind the couple of seconds that this takes.

Mojo

...enough said.

Ok guys, I have been pretty hard on the the Bee here...because they deserve it. But, I have to give credit where credit is due.
No matter how they did it, The Bee (or Eric) got rid of the spam which is something that was bothering many of us and was asked of them. What they don't know is that the spam didn't just pop up one day after they bought us. It’s been here damn near since the site started and Mojo got up every morning at the crack of dawn and deleted them all one by one to keep the site clean and have no log-ins required because he knows what the people want.

I really don't think Eric truly knows all the things Mojo did here. Mojo made this site a full-time job, willingly with very little in return.

About Logging-in; Guys, look back at dozens of threads here and how many times we, with accounts, have told the assholes here to stop being cowardly and log-in, or 'put a name to their words.' You can't be too hard on the Bee when we've asked for this, even indirectly.
But - what people/readers/bloggers need to figure out is that logging in doesn't mean you're not still anonymous!

One day while I was promoting the site downtown I was speaking to a man and his wife telling them all about Modesto Famous. His wife was very excited. She said, "my husband works for the city and there are so many times he'd love to tell people what's 'really' going on and vent a little, but he'd probably lose his job."
My response: "That's the plus side to us having anonymous accounts. You guys should really check out the site, I'm sure your husband has plenty of insight that Modestans deserve to know."

Now, I don't know if they ever post here or not, but I can understand the occasional need to not be so honest about who you are here. But, have you ever tried to set up an account? It doesn't ask for any personal information. It asks for a name....not necessarily 'yours.' You can come here and be "ipickmynoseandeatmyboogers."
No one will know it's you unless you walk up to them on the street and tell them.

You create your own password, and you only put in a personal email address so that the site can notify you of anyone commenting on your posts that you might want to check back on, and so the site can also re-email you your password if you forget it. It's NOT so fellow readers here can start to contact you personally - you get a free private modestfamous.com inbox for that!

The last plus, is that if you have a log-in and some person likes your comment or opinion on a topic, they can click on your log-in name and read other things you've written before. That's how we get return readers! That can't happen with Famous Guests' accounts.
So, before the 'Eric Bashing' starts today, take a little time to see both sides of the fence here. He and the Bee deserve bashing for too many other reasons.