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  • avocadia . # .
    Widespread use:

    I don\'t know that I care if it gained wide spread use. Sure, that\'d be great, but at the same time it would probably be a hinderance - even if you could moderate the comments to get rid of the lamers and the content-free trollers, it would be a lot of comments. I think this, for me anyway, is more an exercise is seeing it it could be done; it would take a lot more than this to change the world.

    It\'s worth mentioning that what I am trying to do requires Mozilla Firefox, which currently holds (rule of thimb measurement) 5-10% of the browser market. This would have to be wildly popular and fulfill some colossal want in the public eye for it to drive people away from IE towards Firefox, and if that were the case, we\'d probably already have comments provided by SMH themselves.

    Besides, if SMH sent me a letter threatening legal action because of trademark violation, I would likely fold. Assuming it was legal action with merit.

    Thanks for the offer of space. To make life easier on me, I\'ll use a free comments host in the short term. I don\'t want to actually have to write a comment system to handle this; what with this, work, half a dozen other software projects (that I\'ll do when I can buy some more tuits), and actually being involved in my family life I think I might have quite enough to do right now :- )