Here are my Discussion settings as well – activated are highlighted in bold text:
Default article settings
Attempt to notify any blogs linked to from the article (slows down posting.)
Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks.)
Allow people to post comments on new articles
(These settings may be overridden for individual articles.)
Other comment settings
Comment author must fill out name and e-mail
Users must be registered and logged in to comment
Automatically close comments on articles older than days
Enable threaded (nested) comments 5 levels deep
Break comments into pages with top level comments per page and the page displayed by default
Comments should be displayed with the comments at the top of each page
E-mail me whenever
Anyone posts a comment
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