Need a WordPress Account to Leave Comment?

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  speckless · Member · Mar 29, 2012 at 11:29 pm

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  Here is my blog: http://speckless.wordpress.com/

  I got a message today from a follower that he needed to open a WordPress account in order to comment on my blog post. Specifically here: http://speckless.wordpress.com/2012/03/18/monster-tea-tags/

  Since I have an account, it’s hard for me to test this. So, is this true? What is happening here?

  Thanks.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  thesacredpath · Member · Mar 30, 2012 at 12:49 am

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  If they are using an email address that is associated with either a wordpress.com or gravatar account, they will have to log into that account to prove that that is their email address.

  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/recent-update-to-commenting?replies=4

  You can bypass all this if you wish by going to settings > discussion and set it so that a name and email address are not required to comment. The fields will still be there so they can fill them in if they wish, but the email address will not be checked. At least that is my understanding.

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  annettewellness · Member · Mar 30, 2012 at 6:22 am

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  I’m having a problem with this. I have a website that runs from wordpress.org and cannot comment on other wordpress sites with it now because it is somehow recognising that I use wordpress, but I can’t login using my regular name and password because it’s attached to wordpress.com not wordpress.org

  VERY frustrating. Any tips?

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  thesacredpath · Member · Mar 30, 2012 at 6:53 am

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  @annettewellness, see the other thread you started for my suggestion.

  And please don’t post the same thing in multiple threads as it causes the volunteers to run in circles and then they get cranky.

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  essya · Member · Apr 2, 2012 at 8:42 am

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  Then now with this update, I have to explain to my followers how to leave a comment on my blog??
  I think that most of them will choose to not comment at all. Why WP doesn’t admit this bug and goes back on this?

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  thesacredpath · Member · Apr 2, 2012 at 8:57 am

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  It isn’t a bug. It was triggered by a Google big wig being impersonated here on wordpress.com (they had his email address), but that was just the trigger. It is getting to be a serious problem from what I’ve been reading, and most all sites are starting to implement things such as this to keep that from happening.

  Just do as I suggested in my first reply above and set it so that an email and name are NOT required and then it will not trigger the system and your commenters can comment in bliss, just like before.

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  raincoaster · Member · Apr 2, 2012 at 9:21 am

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  Really? And here I thought it was because of the Timechief/Timethief issue.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Apr 2, 2012 at 9:28 am

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  Well, that might have been an additional factor – or not.