Anonymous Blog Commentators: Keeping the "Mexican Crab" Story Alive
By Diego Garcia III | Editor of The Brownsville Beacon When I first started my blog, I allowed people to leave comments on my posts. I very quickly decided that was a bad idea and I removed the option to leave comments on my posts altogether. If you visit the Facebook version of the Beacon , you can leave a comment, but you'd have to use a fake Facebook profile to leave a nasty comment — you can't simply leave one as an "Anonymous" commenter. I have made no secret of the fact I think Jerry McHale, Juan Montoya, and Jim Barton are the preeminent bloggers in the Brownsville Blogosphere. I have never pretended to be a professional journalist. My degree is not a degree in journalism. I have never worked for a legitimate news publication. I recently published an article discussing a scenario where Downtown Brownsville could have been a thriving, bustling city center if the University of Texas System had decided to make UT Brownsville a legitimate university rather than a...