email address validation reinstated, extra spam measures in place

Readers/commenters,
The admin team can’t trust you to play nicely, so we’re gonna start treating everybody like preschoolers. Wanna post a comment? You need a *valid* email address, absolutely no exceptions. This is no longer a concern of, “you’re pissing us off.” This is a concern of, “You’re harassing authors and commenters and your commenting priveliges are being revoked if you don’t have an e-mail address the server can validate.”
No address the server can validate?
Then no commenting for you.
we don’t like the mail validator plugin and we don’t like to have to ban by IP, but if it’s gonna help save somebody from finding out who’s got a bullet with her name on it and asking them to fire till they find out which one it is, we’ll use those things as preventative steps.
Treating people like preschoolers wasn’t how we wanted to spend our day, but you guys earned it. Have a problem with us? Take it up personally and don’t act like a 6th grader. A 12-year-old can handle this shit better than some of you are. This is disgusting that we even have to implement such a half -assed plugin to get the job done, but as of right now there are no other options.
The network in question where these comments were sent from has been notified and steps are being taken to prevent any further harm to this blog, or the server it is hosted on.
Thank you for your time.

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