unable to log in at http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula

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  bluescat48 · Member · Jan 11, 2012 at 7:22 am

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  My login is not accepting my user name bluescat48 at http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula
  whereas it accepts it at the other sites.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jan 11, 2012 at 8:16 am

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  Sorry, that site is self-hosted and you need to head over to the WordPress.org forums as that is where self-hosted wordpress blogs using the software from wordpress.ORG are supported.

  These forums are for those hosted here on the wordpress.COM free hosting service and things here work differently.

  If you are not familiar with the differences, see this support document.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jan 11, 2012 at 8:17 am

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  Since that site is self-hosted, your wordpress.COM username will not work with it. Self-hosted wordpress sites are not in anyway connected to wordpress.COM.

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  armsopenwide · Member · Jan 21, 2012 at 2:35 pm

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  I subscribe to a site, http://pk4a.com/blog/2012/01/medical-team-arrives-in-freetown/ which requires log in to comment.
  Do you realize that there is no way for a person without a wordpress.org blog to comment on one of these sites?
  This is very restrictive, and limits the worth of the self-hosted sites, since conversation can only occur within a very exclusive group, that is, other wordpress.org bloggers.

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  armsopenwide · Member · Jan 21, 2012 at 2:36 pm

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  I subscribe to a site, http://pk4a.com/blog/2012/01/medical-team-arrives-in-freetown/ which requires log in to comment.
  Do you realize that there is no way for a person without a wordpress.org blog to comment on one of these sites?
  This is very restrictive, and limits the worth of the self-hosted sites, since conversation can only occur within a very exclusive group, that is, other wordpress.org bloggers.

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  auxclass · Member · Jan 21, 2012 at 3:13 pm

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  @armsopenwide

  Comments are controlled by the site owner – they have decided to restrict who can leave comments – it is not related to WordPress.ORG at all – it is just the pk4a people don’t want many comments – all the blogs here can be set the same way if the blog owner wants to –

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  raincoaster · Member · Jan 21, 2012 at 4:04 pm

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  Do you realize that there is no way for a person without a wordpress.org blog to comment on one of these sites?

  Well, either get one or don’t comment. If he’s set his comments this way, there’s not much you can do about it. This is why I’ve never commented on Will Wheaton’s site.