WordPress comments flaw

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  andy · Member · Sep 18, 2009 at 9:38 pm

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  mekcm: Your comment was never published on Grocery Joke because I use moderation and your comment was very suspicious.

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  mekcm · Member · Sep 18, 2009 at 9:46 pm

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  andy:

  Yes, I know :)
  Sorry for using your blog to show the flaw. People don’t understand the problem.

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  yihsieh · Member · Sep 19, 2009 at 6:04 am

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  This is not a problem. You’re essentially expecting everyone on the internet who comment on your blog to have only a single and unique nickname, and expecting wordpress to somehow differentiate each individual.

  When that’s clearly undoable, you ask for the opposite end of the spectrum, and that’s making almost everyone anonymous.

  There is a way to do it, and that’s manually changing the name of everyone who’s not logged in to wordpress into “anonymous”.
  The gravatar also serves as a way to differentiate between people since email is not shown, so theoretically, only the “real” poster would know what email he put down. Each email is assigned a unique gravatar, so you can do that.

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  raincoaster · Member · Sep 19, 2009 at 6:37 am

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  I am wondering what the specific issue is: that people cannot positively be identified online? If the OP made a fake comment, he can easily see the IP is different.

  If he’s willing to pay my consulting rate, I’m happy to educate him on ways to determine who is really who online. Internet drama is my fastest-growing consulting area, but I am not cheap.