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There needs to be a new service run by the members for the members, with no ads or pressure from advertisers. Something like a foundation. Like Wikimedia.
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Hi there. I have run a wordpress blog for nearly 6 years, with up to 400 posts, smoothly and happily. This is by far the worst problem I encountered so far, and the bad news is that it seems to be following other problems which I experienced lately. What concerns me is that these problems happen right after WordPress has changed its administrative status, meaning that the problems we are experiencing have a systemic character rather than occassional. I suposse WordPress will not give a dim for my blog -in fact their not responding to this thread is proof of that- but I am already considering options. I am loosing too many readers.
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Three tweets to @photomatt including a screencap of me being asked to log in to comment on a WP blog when I’m already logged in to post at my own WP blog. Response after a day and a half: zilch, zero, zip, nada, nothing, nowt, the square root of naff all, the centre of a ****ing donut.
I wish I could say I was surprised but it is still disappointing.
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They won’t change it back to the old way. Have you ever heard a song titled It’s All ‘Bout The Money by Meja? A good song, indeed. If someday WordPress.com ask our feedbacks about what song suits their need as a theme song, I’d love to suggest that one.
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In case I seem to be defaming WP, it should be added that nothing technically untrue is said and WP is just doing what many publishers and content providers do. In this case, we suddenly have all these new “active accounts”. It means nothing. But the advertisers don’t ask questions. A lot publishing is based on similar nonsense.
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There is quite a bit of speculation here, and while I can’t address every single point, I’d like to point out that one of the many reasons behind this change was to provide greater control over your own identity within comments at WordPress.com.
Anyone who knows your email address could have easily linked their comment to your account in a way that was indistinguishable from you leaving it, and you would have no way of knowing it or stopping them. Now comments linked to your account are always going to be from you.
Here are a few more points to keep in mind, which should address the majority of your concerns:
1. To control what shows when you comment, you can edit your profile at Users -> My Profile in your Dashboard.
2. Folks can still comment just like before, but if they use a registered email address, they need to log in to prove that it’s really them.
3. This extends to both Gravatar and WordPress.com accounts, which actually are the same thing, the same user names and passwords. Folks who are sure that they do not have a WordPress.com account may have forgotten that they registered a Gravatar account years earlier.
4. If folks are still unsure, they can use the Forgot Password links at either http://wordpress.com/ or http://en.gravatar.com/ to regain access to their account.
5. Just as before, you don’t have to require your commenters to use an email address, it’s an option under Settings -> Discussion.
6. We’re happy to help people who are having trouble commenting, logging in, or resetting their passwords. Let us know steps to reproduce the problem and we’ll do our best to help the person or fix the bug.
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