What is the point of a blog that you have to log in to leave a comment?
February 24, 2005
This has annoyed me twice today. I wanted to leave a comment on two peoples blogs – they are using Blogger. For some reason they think its a good idea to require authentication on their blogs – which entails me creating a Blogger account – I don’t want a blogger account!!!
There is some great content getting posted up on Blogger accounts – I’d love to respond to it but its just too much effort. Thats why the blog stuff integrated with the blog services included with MSDN Connection membership – it required Passport to sign in to view the posts if I recall correctly (that and there was no RSS feed?!?!).
Lesson number one about blogs people – you can’t put up walls between you and the people you want to have a distributed discussion with – it just won’t work. Paul’s idea is interesting though.
February 24, 2005 at 12:00 am
Probably to try to prevent blogspam which is a good idea but I prefer other methods. Who can be bothered setting up an account just to comment? Not me :O)
February 24, 2005 at 12:00 am
I assume you have an issue with my blog, given you linked to is a couple of minutes before this post. While yes in general to limit comment spam, however in my case I have just been plain lazy and you caught me out.
In Jan I was trying to get Haloscan up and running but the Blogger template and Haloscan did not seem to work. As such I set a goal to move off Blogger onto MoveableType, but then we moved to Melbourne and I just have not got around to it.
I guess I need to now after you outed me
February 24, 2005 at 12:00 am
Would also like to add that MSN Spaces requires you to sign in to your .NET Passport account to be able to leave a comment.
My blog is setup so at a minimum people have to enter at least a name and email address.
I had considered leaving a URL of some sort as another minimum, but hadn’t followed through on that.
If you have to sign in to leave a comment, you may as well just write the comment on your own blog and post a trackback/pingback to the original post.