readers can't leave comments on my blog

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    jshaffner · Member ·

    Some users can’t comment on my blog https://jshaffner.wordpress.com/ It requires them to log in to wordpress (or FB, twitter etc. – I haven’t been able to confirm that FB, twitter works either, but that’s what it says), even though they leave their name and email address as required. Please tell me how to fix this problem, thanks!

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

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    timethief · Member ·

    Comments are open on your posts. If what you want to achieve is anonymous commenting then I do not recommend it at all, as over 80% of all so-called comments submitted to wordpress.COM blogs daily is spam. Therefore setting up anonymous commenting is akin to throwing down a welcome mat to every spammer and phisher out there. See here please http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#comment-moderation

    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 comment

    Note 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 copy and paste this into a text widget: https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/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.

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    jshaffner · Member ·

    Thanks Time Thief, but on that page I have checked “Comment author must fill out name and e-mail” to avoid spam

      but have not checked

    “Users must be registered and logged in to comment”
    but I still have the problem where if a legitimate reader wants to comment

      but is not logged in to FB, wordpress etc.

    they can’t leave a comment with just their name and email…

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