Comments on: no comment? think again! http://raincoastermedia.com/2007/08/14/no-comment-think-again/ transformative social media training Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:14:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: raincoaster http://raincoastermedia.com/2007/08/14/no-comment-think-again/#comment-838 Sat, 18 Aug 2007 21:42:41 +0000 http://runningthroughrain.wordpress.com/2007/08/14/no-comment-think-again/#comment-838 It occurs to me further that Iain will never read that comment, and so will run around to the end of his days thinking I slagged him for no reason.

]]> By: raincoaster http://raincoastermedia.com/2007/08/14/no-comment-think-again/#comment-803 Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:16:30 +0000 http://runningthroughrain.wordpress.com/2007/08/14/no-comment-think-again/#comment-803 You know, it occurs to me that Livejournal, among other services, uses OpenID. That would be useful. WP.com allows you to have an OpenID, but won’t let you use it on WP.com blogs, which is a PIA as far as I’m concerned.

]]> By: raincoaster http://raincoastermedia.com/2007/08/14/no-comment-think-again/#comment-800 Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:19:57 +0000 http://runningthroughrain.wordpress.com/2007/08/14/no-comment-think-again/#comment-800 Yep, but your comments have to be good. Good or bad, comments are an advertisement for yourself and your blog. Thankfully, there are fewer and fewer “u sux bahahahaha” trolls and more and more thoughtful commenters around.

]]> By: sulz http://raincoastermedia.com/2007/08/14/no-comment-think-again/#comment-799 Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:06:10 +0000 http://runningthroughrain.wordpress.com/2007/08/14/no-comment-think-again/#comment-799 i’ve always been rather generous in commenting as i see it as a form of advertising for my own blog. now more incentive in a sense, though i still prefer cold hard links. :P

]]> By: raincoaster http://raincoastermedia.com/2007/08/14/no-comment-think-again/#comment-798 Wed, 15 Aug 2007 08:52:48 +0000 http://runningthroughrain.wordpress.com/2007/08/14/no-comment-think-again/#comment-798 Yes, you have, Iain, although you probably didn’t know it.

That is how the “No Anonymous Comments Comment Moderation” works on Blogger. It disallows all links to non-Blogger or non-Blogspot blogs or websites. I could post comments, but I was prevented from linking my name to my blog. I could only post because I had a Google identity, and it automatically linked that to the Blogger blogs I’m a contributor to.

Disallow anonymous comments like you did before, then sign out of your Blogspot blog and then try to sign in and leave a comment using your WordPress identity. If it works, and the link is allowed, obviously I’m wrong and will eat my words.

But it won’t work.

The only way to leave a signature link to your own blog if it’s NOT a Blogspot or Blogger blog (both owned by Google) and “No anonymous comments” is on is to put the HTML right in the comment, which is cheezy in the extreme.

UPDATE: I see it’s not set the same; it’s just plain comment moderation now. That’s a different story. When you set it to No Anonymous Comments, as you did for your Rwanda trip, it restricts it to Google/Blogger identities. That is what I was referring to. I didn’t know you’d switched it back because, as I said, I dropped that blog like a hot turd when it went on.

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