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Allow 'anonymous' commenting to be disabled, yet allow OpenID comments
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To allow 'anonymous' option in comments to be disabled, yet keeping the OpenID option open, forcing commentors to identify themselves if the LJ owner decides to.
Full description of the ideaCurrently, it is an all or nothing situation
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Currently, OpenID users can set and validate an email address. For the purposes of comments, OpenID users who have not done so are classed with anonymous users. OpenID users who have successfully validated their email addresses are classed with registered users.
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Doesn't OpenID allow blog owners outside of the LJ-Verse to sign in as a recognized entity instead of the truly nameless, faceless void that is 'anonymous?'
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I still would like to see the settings separated, to give a journal owner more control, and, say, set 'Unvalidated OpenID' between anonymous and registered users, and clarify registered users that this includes validated OpenID.
This is also an opportunity to examine our documentation, as it is possibly under-documented. (In addition to suggestions, I'm also involved with the docs team, and while documentation isn't managed in here, it's pretty quick to get a docs conversation started and moved over to the proper place.)
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But also, it would be nice to be able to allow openid users from only specific sites.
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I feel the better solution is to more fully integrate validated OpenID accounts with standard LJ accounts, not to create another layer of segregation.
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Integrated or not integrated OpenID wasn't part of the original idea...
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To crib a bit from azurelunatic I'd be happy if your choices were "everybody" (allows anonymous comments), "unregistered users" (allows all OpenID users), "registered users" (allows validated OpenID users), or "friends".
What I don't want is something like "everybody" (allows anonymous comments), "all OpenID" (allows all OpenID users), "registered OpenID" (allows validated OpenID users) "registered users" (allows standard LJ users), or "friends".
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