I think registering to comment is crap, imo it’s only necessary if you get alot of spam..
I wouldn’t call it crap, but otherwise I agree with eridan. Unless you have a blog on a community site or one specifically aimed at memberships of a sort, registration tends to dissuade many visitors from commenting.
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sallam
(@sallam)
thanks for your input.
One question: how do I get to email those users?
Is there a way to know the email address they typed when they made the comment?
edit:
ok I got it, its in Manage > Comments
Look under Options > Discussion. Under the section “Before a comment appears” is the setting “Comment author must fill out name and e-mail”. Whether they provide a valid one…
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sallam
(@sallam)
Yes, you never know…lol
Thanks very much for the help.
Registering just to comment flat out sucks.
I was reminded of this thread topic just two minutes ago. I had a question on a plugin and sifted thru a very long comment thread at the programers site.
After making sure that my question had not been answered in one of the 50 plus comments, what do I find? Registration just to ask a simple question.
So any answer is delayed because I must go thru the reg process, then await the PW email, surf back to the site, then and only then post my question.
It SUCKS – with all the available spam plugins their is absolutly no need for that.
I almost never leave a comment on a site that requires registration.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 (actualy 5, podz, yer busted)….. OK, now I know how many people won’t be comming by my site… I don’t know if I should be hurt or not….. nah.. I’m not.
I use comment registration. To me it’s no biggie. If you don’t want to register, then what ever you have to say isn’t importaint enough. That said, it’s not like my blog has a broad scope either, it’s targeted and specific. And the comment registration has cut down on the spam 100%. And it’s maintenance free. Sure there’s other tools out there, but they each required some kind of maintenance that needed to be done. Things to delete, things to approve, and blacklists to update.
It’s also cut down on drive by commenting. They aren’t spam, but it’s not quite 100% a legit comment either. But it is equaly annoying.
— rest of posting deleted before I swallow my foot. —
Tg
I don’t like turning on registration for comments, but I do make people go through the trouble of typing in the authimage code. 😉
I don’t mind registering to comment if it’s a site that I’ll be coming back to. If I’m just passing through, and my comment would probably be insignificant anyway, I usually just skip it.
All my reasons can be found right here.
Tg
TG, I have the same attitude. My blogs are MY blatherskite (not that yours is, mind you, but mine definitely are my place to write, to try out ideas, to blow off steam) and while I don’t mind the odd comment or two, blogs for me were never a place for the rest of the world to “interact”. Interaction is a “forum” thing, and I have those as well for that reason.
Opposite of prissed, I don’t bother with the authimage stuff UNLESS spamkarma thinks it’s necessary – in which case, spamkarma handles it. I DO think registering is necessary to comment. I don’t mind doing it myself when I have something to say on others’ blogs either. It’s just really no big deal, y’know?
