On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 10:39 -0500, Josh Rosenberg wrote: > 2c. Let OpenID users set a display name that doesn't have to be unique at > all. This is perhaps strange in the LJ-code paradigm where display names > are also URLs and therefore have to be unique, but on other blogs where > users can sign comments with whatever username linked to whatever > (non-OpenID) URL they want, it's less strange.
Relatedly, I suggested on IRC this week that maybe we should consider allowing people to sign a (non-authenticated) name to the category of comment currently called 'anonymous', so that the DW 'comment posted by' functionality worked more like blogger et al. I don't think we'd want to let them be links (unless they were openID-authenticated links?), but allowing people to sign a name without creating an account would make DW a more tempting platform for the people who want to keep the barrier-to-entry low for commenting on their posts - the recent LJ hook-up with The Independent made me think about this again, how are they handling it? Does anybody who wants to comment have to create an LJ account? _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
