As you have probably already noticed, we've made some changes around here. Yesterday morning SFist, its publisher Gothamist, and our sister sites unveiled a new option: guest comments are automatically not displayed for users. But if you do want to read guests' comments, simply click "Show Guest Comments" and -- poof! -- all will be revealed. At least for now.

This is but one step in the process of getting rid of guest comments altogether. Soon, if you want to make a comment on SFist, you will be required to create a profile. Period. It actually isn't that difficult to register, and if you're paranoid about giving us your personal information, simply create a fake email account and go from there.

Already we've received some choice commentary about our final solution for guests:

-- "Utterly lame!"
-- "Fucking lame"
-- "[SFist is] full of itself."
-- "I'm tired of juggling ALL 83 of my online user and passwords."
-- "I hope you die of AIDS."

And while we (more or less) don't mind negative comments, we're simply ask you to not make them anonymously. If you feel the need to post anonymous comments, there are many other sites on the Internets that will allow you to do so. And if you hate us and wish we would just crawl into a hole and die, we recommend you not read any sites in which you have no faith.

Thanks, all! If you have any questions or concerns regarding the matter, please feel free to contact me at brock @ sfist.