Well, restricting comments to logged in users only means it's possible to ban comments from a specific user and they can't escape the ban by posting anonymously. (And, if they continue to post from a series of alternate accounts that can be shown to belong to a particular individual, they can get TOSsed from LJ, if not necessarily LJ clones.)
Also, some people don't mind complete strangers posting on their entries, but they do want everyone who posts to have a name. Restricting to logged-in users technologically enforces a signature requirement. (AFAIK, logged-in users includes VERIFIED OpenID accounts, i.e. the ones where the OpenID holder has verified an e-mail address to be connected w/ their OpenID.) P.S. 'They' works just fine for singular third person gender unknown, and it's been in use that way for ... about as long as Modern English. I'm not sure about Middle or Old English. Denise's attack of hives notwithstanding. --zvi
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