Do you need to have a user account to comment?

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  h4hh · Member · Feb 26, 2007 at 8:54 am

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  I have just recently opened a wordpress account for my blog. And I was wondering; if people that view my blog wanted to leave a comment, would they need to have a wordpress user account first.

  I hope not as that may well put people off from commenting, but I couldn’t find anything in the FAQs

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  mark · Member · Feb 26, 2007 at 9:07 am

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  By default anyone can leave a comment on a blog.
  You haven’t altered any settings so anyone can indeed leave a comment.

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  boles · Member · Feb 26, 2007 at 12:02 pm

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  Hi sjp1966 —

  Mark is right.

  If you or your commenters want Avatars next to their names they will need to register on WP.com to get an account to upload their Avatar.

  Then they’ll need to be logged into WP.com when they post a comment if they wish their Avatar to show.

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  h4hh · Member · Feb 26, 2007 at 2:11 pm

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  Cool, so anyone can leave a comment, but if they want an avatar they need an account?

  Thanks

  Steve

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  drmike · Member · Feb 26, 2007 at 2:14 pm

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  Yup. If they don’t have an avatar, they get one of those question mark thingies.

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  boles · Member · Feb 26, 2007 at 2:52 pm

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  sjp1966 —

  They must be logged in to have an Avatar or even a Question Mark where the Avatar is supposed to be placed. If they’re not logged in with their account, no sort of “Avatar” will load at all.

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  drmike · Member · Feb 26, 2007 at 3:40 pm

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  Oops, my mistake. Boles is right.