How do I allow comments without requiring an e-mail address

nnlib · Member · Oct 17, 2008 at 5:19 pm
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The blog is currently set to approve all comments. Is this why commentors are required to provide an e-mail address? I would like to NOT require the e-mail address.

Thanks, Sue
rosclarke · Member · Oct 17, 2008 at 5:21 pm
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Do you have a wordpress.com blog? Please give us a direct link to it (starting with http) so that we can help.
seagirldsi97plum · Member · Oct 20, 2008 at 2:45 am
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uhhhh can someone answer the same question nnlib had?
vivianpaige · Member · Oct 20, 2008 at 3:41 am
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Um – not without a link to your wordpress.COM blog.
wigwam2theorem · Member · Oct 20, 2008 at 5:58 am
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I believe that if you go to Settings – Discussion, unchecking the “comment author must fill out name and e-mail” box will do it
vivianpaige · Member · Oct 20, 2008 at 12:37 pm
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Those instructions may or may not apply if the person who asked is not hosted here at wordpress.COM. That’s why we ask for a link to the blog.
wigwam2theorem · Member · Oct 20, 2008 at 12:46 pm
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You could have answered the question starting with “If your blog is hosted at wordpress.COM and not wordpress.ORG…”
vivianpaige · Member · Oct 20, 2008 at 2:07 pm
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Um, no. I have a rule: no answer without a link. Far too many people ask questions here and after the volunteers spend way too much time helping them, it is discovered that the person posting is not hosted here. And quite a number of them, even when we point out that the software is different or point them to this thread persist in believing that the software is the same. Take a look at this thread if you think I’m not kidding.

You, of course, are free to do as you wish.
vivianpaige · Member · Oct 20, 2008 at 2:08 pm
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That should be “if you think I am kidding.”

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