What is easier than filling in 3 fields name,url and email, As you can guess I am talking about blog comments because this morning I awoke with the intention of reading a few blog posts and making some comments since I no longer seem to do that anymore. In my email their was a post from a cool blog I read sometimes who’s writer also likes to rant and as it was a customer service review I was particularly interested since I have been ranting about customer service recently here also. . When it was time to comment I noticed that I had a post that was quite related to it and wanted to fill in the url field to link to that customer service post. But WordPress dot com wanted me to login as they knew my email. For those of you that don’t know my blog uses WordPress.org not .com and I do not be logged into WordPress dot com but when logging in if I had of put in the Wrong password my comment would have been lost.
Then I would be resetting passwords and probably reading other blogs or even worse reading Facebook timelines like is in the case where sites ask you to login with Facebook to make a comment. Sure sites do this to combat spam but if protection and so called security measures are deterring people from commenting should you really be using them ?. I see having login to comment and services that try to make readers login to make comments are just like having 10 security people outside your nightclub stopping people getting in when inside the music is playing, Barstaff are preparing drinks but nobody is dancing because the club is empty. If you are blocking interaction unintentionally with login to comment systems you just may be filtering out valuable information instead of just combating spammers.
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