commenting bugs

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  tandava108 · Member · Mar 27, 2012 at 8:36 am

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  It’s a very frustrating change and I too have seen the impact on the amount of comments I now receive, which obviously has dropped.

  I think that I am down to a fifth of the number of comments that I used to get. Also I had an email from someone who obviously thought that it was something that I had deliberately done to be unfriendly

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  limecello · Member · Mar 27, 2012 at 9:56 pm

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  Has anyone had the problem where people are already logged in and still can’t leave comments on blogs?

  I tried to ask about it here as well: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/certain-people-cant-comment-on-blog?replies=4#post-851362

  I’m not happy with the forcing people to log in, but even that issue aside – there are bugs? issues? with people trying to comment on my blog.

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  ludusnaturae · Member · Mar 27, 2012 at 11:12 pm

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  @alexsaja
  “We All Like to Log In” :lol:

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  ludusnaturae · Member · Mar 27, 2012 at 11:24 pm

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  I have registered an account in another platform, with a different email. But the problem is that this platform uses Polldaddy, a service powered by Automattic. Then, if I want to use this poll service there, will my email be registered forever in all Automattic services?

  Will “We All Like to Have Our Email Hijacked by Automattic Forever by Using Any of their Services”?

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  acjhs · Member · Mar 28, 2012 at 1:23 am

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  Note for blog owners: you can uncheck the “Comment author must fill out name and e-mail” option on your Settings → Discussion page and that will allow anyone to leave a comment without needing to enter their email address. That option might be helpful to some of you in the short term.

  I did this and left a post at my blog suggesting that readers comment without their email address. However there are still bugs. My parents (who have never had any kind of wordpress, gravatar or other account) have left comments that have just been lost in the ether. They also have left comments that showed up as Anonymous. I have another regular reader whose comments sometimes show up as Anonymous and sometimes with her name. She is leaving her name each time without an email address.

  Add me to the list of bloggers who are frustrated by this change and really wish it could just go away.