Will you please add an error message telling would-be comment-leavers to log in?

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  gillianoz · Member · Jun 21, 2013 at 4:24 pm

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  Sometimes readers of my blog have tried to leave a comment when they are not logged in. When they click the “comment” button, they gets no response. We think there should be an error message that comes up, saying, “Please log in to leave a comment.”

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  timethief · Member · Jun 21, 2013 at 4:28 pm

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  Whether or not would be commenters must log in and provide an email address is up to each blogger. 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.
  
  If you want to set up anonymous commenting (I do not recommend this) 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:

  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.

  P.S. If you do set up anonymous commenting be sure to set up full comment moderation 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