I find it highly annoying when I read an entry in someone's blog.. want to comment and learn that I need to "register" to do so because anonymous commenting is not allowed..
Alright.. so anonymous is not allowed.. but why require someone to register? Will me creating some utterly useless account that will rot in a database until someone prunes it months from now assure that I did not use a fake name and/or e-mail address?
Have some sanity people.. I just wanted to post a 2 line comment! I have enough passwords in my head, don't need to create a new one just for this..
This is what I wanted to comment on.. but now I forget what witticism I was going to type out.. so pfffbt... they'll need to survive without my invaluable input.. I refuse to create an account for a comment.. it's stupid. I'm sure he/she (as in the author of said blog) is all crushed about it too :)
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It's exactly what I told to the PostNuke developers, but they don't agree with me.. One of the reasons why I move to other general weblogging systems, coz even if I allow posting anonymously, people tend to not leave their name in a post if there's no textbox for a name in the first place.
#Hey, I thought >this< blog needed registration. Or at least, I thought it needed me to hand over my email address. Not that I have any problem with handing my email address to the blog's author, but there's no statement of what it's going to be used for.
(This posting, if successful, will have a dummy email address)
#Agreed, I'm the same way. I'd often like to comment on blogs or postings but since I need to create an "account", I don't bother. (Maybe this is a good thing, I always waste enough time as it is..)
#That's a good point.. so I changed my page to let people know they can just fake it :)
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