You need only look at our comment section to realize the bar to entry is not very high. Anyone can get in, and, frankly, anyone does. Who is or is not a commenter is based solely upon the contents of their first attempted comment, judged not by anyone on the staff at Kotaku, but by a disgruntled Gawker intern who was hobbled, Paul Sheldon style, and hates us all.
But that's not to say we don't want you as a commenter. We do. We just would respectfully request you not be a total flaming moron. That, in and of itself, raises rather ponderous philosophical questions: if a person is so without introspection that they slalom down the slope of human intelligence into moronism, would they ever realize how low they'd slid? I don't know. Let's find out!
Here's the protocol to being a commenter on Kotaku.
1) Find a post you would like to respond to. Click the "Comment" link.
2) Scroll down to where it says "Post a comment." Enter one. Why not say hello to that disgruntled intern?
3) Enter the username you want. Love2Spooge is already taken.
4) Enter the password you want. We recommend you make it easily hackable.
5) Click Submit Comment. The commenting system will go, "Say Wha'?"
6) Confirm your password.
7) Enter an email so you can recover your password when someone hacks it.
8) Click Submit Comment again.
If you can get past our IUD commenting intern, you're in, at least until you say something that causes the Kotaku editorial staff to start flinging around "BANNINATE" emails frantically. Use this post to test. Tell us the sort of news and subjects you'd like to see. Or just write haikus about the staff members. And remember... for all our gentle teasing, we love you guys.
