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The most annoying part of this we-know-what’s-best-for-you fiasco is: they had time to make a sticky-thread which is closed to comments, but don’t have a time to response our queries.
C’mon oh our beloved happy engineers: show up and tell us that you’d all like to be another Multiply and we might rest our case.
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This could have been achieved by an opt-in addition to the user profile.
“I must be logged-in to WordPress to be able to leave a comment – tick this box”
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@catfromhell said,
This is making me think that my next step is Drupal!
I seriously hope you were joking on that. Drupal is like using a chainsaw to trim your nose hair. It is a super-geek’s wet dream – or wet nightmare.
Just self-host a wordpress.ORG site and then you are in complete control.
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@bigdave44, opt-in is not in the wordpress vocabulary. Their new mantra is “make decisions, don’t give choices.”
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@bigdave44 – I sort-of agree. But I’d do it the other way around. The security-foo in me says safe is the better default. Let you tick an option “My registered email opts out of impersonation protection on WP hosted comments”. Then you should see a pop-in that says “Are you sure? This will let anyone on the internet put your email in when they post comments, and this pretend to be you … ( Cancel | Make it so )”.
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@bigdave44, opt-in is not in the wordpress vocabulary. Their new mantra is “make decisions, don’t give choices.”
Sounds familiar. It reminds me of the day when “we all like to reblog“. LOL.
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Yup, and whaddya want to bet that before that announcement less than 10% of bloggers even knew what it was?
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I bet that we gonna read something like “The feature is not going away, and is going to continue evolving. If you don’t like that, perhaps consider an alternative blogging service or hosting your own WordPress.” or “part of the core WordPress Dashboard redesign, built on the feedback of millions of WordPress users”. Oh well… Just wait ’till someone pops up and tell us that the thread is closed considering focusing more staff support on the forums. I’m getting used to those respectable solutions.
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bigdave44
This could have been achieved by an opt-in addition to the user profile.
“I must be logged-in to WordPress to be able to leave a comment – tick this box”
Yep. Incidentally, Matt Cutts (the Google guy whose apparent impersonation sparked this whole debacle) recently tweeted that very suggestion.
In other words, if you think you might get ID/gravatar/nic-jacked in the comments sections of blogs, you can select that your WP/gravatar ID requires login before commenting. But programming that in would have made a lot more sense, and probably taken more than 5 minutes to do.
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I’ve had this problem, unable to even comment on my own blog, logged in and all. Then I deleted my email address from Gravatar and it now seems to be OK.
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In the fluctuating state of things I had the pleasure of having my own comment reply held for moderation on my own blog. Cool. I approved myself.
The problem is not just whether a person has ever had a WP account attached to an email address. The problem is Gravatar. If a Gravatar account is attached to a particular email address, you will be required to log in to that before you can leave a comment on WP with that email address. And you know what? You cannot delete a Gravatar account. Nope. It’s there forever.
You can, of course, delete an email account.
There are miscreants out there whose whole purpose is to make internet mischief. No question about that. But if the “solution” drives normal people away from reading and commenting on blogs the miscreants have won.
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Yup, I’ve just unsuccessfully tried to find a way to delete my gravatar account. Then I sent an email to gravatar support, asking them to delete my gravatar account a minute ago. I’m waiting for their repply now.
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I can’t leave comments, either – I’m told I have to be logged in (even though I AM logged in) and when I log in AGAIN I get a message saying “That email address is associated with an existing WordPress.com account, please log in to use it.” A vicious circle going nowhere… Can you fix this?
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I’m able to leave comments when I’m on a computer, but when I try commenting on anyone’s WordPress blog from my iPhone, I get the “That email address is associated with an existing WordPress.com account, please log in to use it” error. Really frustrating since I have WordPress on my phone and am able to access and address comments on my own blog, I just can’t comment on anyone else’s!
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Anonymous comments — i.e. not having to type in an email address (if that is your Settings preference) — seems to be working at the moment.
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Just like everyone else I too am having the same problems.
I am logged in but for some reason I cannot “Like” a post and I cannot “comment”. Another problem I’m having is when I a writing a new blog the “preview” option does not work. All I get is a WordPress 404 error page. Only afte I publish the post can I see my work. -
chrisrudzki said:
We discovered a bug that required some users to use an email address when commenting, even when the blog owner doesn’t require an email address, or might prevent logged-in users from commenting.
This bug has been fixed. We’re sorry for any inconvenience this might have caused.
Yaaaaaaay! (“We discovered a bug….” -??-)
Thank you! (^_^)
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