likes and comments
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Hi, Me and my blogging parner just started a free blog here on wordpress using the theme Libre. We noticed at once that you can not like a post if you dont own a wordpress account? And that you can not leave a comment without leaving a mail adress? Is there anyway around this?
We want active reader and we feel like this will stop people from interacting with us and our blog.
Looking forward to your reply and future cooperation!
Regards the Mirakesh blogers -
re: like button use
Just like any other place with a like button, for example, Facebook, one has to register a username account and be logged in to be able to use it. All that’s required to register an account is a valid email address.
If you assume that like button clicks are an accurate and true reflection of engagement then you are not aware of how many like button spammers there are. They click the like buttons on other sites for traffic driving purposes ie. simply so visitors will click their gravatars and visit their sites.
Bottom line: The value of a like button click in no way compares to the value of a thoughtful comment.
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While we are on the subject I’ll share some advice on setting up anonymous commenting; don’t be tempted to do it!
Be keenly aware that the vast and overwhelming majority of all so-called information on the internet is spam. Over 80% of all so-called comments submitted to .wordpress.com blogs every day are spam.
Spam comes in waves. There are human beings who get paid to post spam. There are robotic programs that post spam. Setting up anonymous commenting is akin to throwing down a welcome mat to spammers and phishers and all their buddies too, as they sell URLs and email addresses to each other for spamming and phishing purposes.
This page > Settings > Discussion is where you set up defaults for comments.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/Discussion Settings
Other comment settings
_Comment author must fill out name and e-mail
_Users must be registered and logged in to commentNote that the prompt to submit and email address and a website URL will still appear, but providing an email address and logging in are not required, and you cannot change this so the prompt does not appear.
You can post instructions for your visitors in a text widget if you wish to set up anonymous commenting. That’s easy to do. You can copy and paste this into a text widget:
Readers: Note that the email address and logging in prompts do appear for comments on this blog, but providing an email address and logging in are not required.
Advice: Do be sure to set up full comment moderation on your own blog ie. “An administrator must always approve the comment” because anonymous commenting is bound to increase the amount of spam your blog will receive.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#comment-moderation -
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