Why do you want a sign in?
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Again, I’m upset that this has happened. I went to leave a comment on a blog which DID NOT require a sign in – just an e-mail address and a name. When I entered my e-mail address, WordPress wanted me to sign in. What the heck are you doing demanding that I sign in if that is not a requirement of the blog (it was an option, but I chose not to)? If I don’t choose that option what business is it of yours that I sign in? Why are you checking my e-mail anyway if I don’t choose that option? This is a very bad practice and one I do not appreciate in the least.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Dear Raincoaster –
Thanks for replying, but – well, first I’m not a “Dude”. Did you read what I wrote? I would like an answer from someone who actually works or has some technical responsibility at WordPress to address my concern. Of course I use “you” – but maybe another pronoun would be better?
Anyway, could someone with some real responsibility answer me/
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They could, if you email them at support at wordpress dot com.
If you want an answer rather than a soothing platitude, you could search the forums where this particular question has been dealt with dozens of times and explained dozens of times.
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The blogger does not want just any riffraff to comment on their blog – not a WordPress.COM issue at all
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Raincoaster. When I went to contact support, basically it just redirected me to post to forums. I did try searching, but didn’t have luck finding this issue – if you can somehow point to it, that would be great. You say it’s been answered before?
Anyway, it’s something that doesn’t sit too well with me. And I do believe it’s some kind of WordPress issue, although I just e-mailed someone at the blog to see if they could tell me anything. This happened at another blog and I asked that owner about it and he didn’t know anything about it at all!
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Yes, the question has been asked and answered dozens of times and if you hadn’t been so accusatory and sweary I’d have answered it yesterday for you.
WordPress.com had a problem where anyone who knew somebody’s email address could pretend to be them when making comments. Somebody impersonated a very, very senior person at Google using this trick. So WP.com decided to eliminate the possibility of someone impersonating its users within its own system; that is why it needs your actual WP.com password.
Not everyone is thrilled with this, but it IS a great security feature.
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Sorry if I came off accusatory, but your first post did kind of take me off guard.
Thanks for the info. No, I’m not thrilled with that “feature.” I find it pretty disconcerting that WP would even check my e-mail addy when I didn’t elect to sign in with WP. You mentioned within the system, and sure enough, both the blogs I experienced this with were also WP.
Now I just need to figure out what I want to do… It’s hard to figure out options when there are so many privacy and security issues—– oh well.
Thanks again.
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