{"id":2356,"date":"2013-04-23T02:22:52","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T09:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harperkingsley.net\/blog\/2013\/04\/anonymous-comments-on-lj\/"},"modified":"2023-10-17T23:38:02","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T06:38:02","slug":"anonymous-comments-on-lj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/anonymous-comments-on-lj\/","title":{"rendered":"Anonymous comments on LJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I shut off anonymous commenting on my <a href=\"http:\/\/harperkingsley.livejournal.com\">LiveJournal<\/a>. I was suddenly getting a lot of weird spam messages because I&#8217;d joined the rankings. There were hundreds of screened comments and there was just no way I could get through them all. LiveJournal never told me they were there, so I probably dropped the ball responding to some legitimate comments too, which makes me feel bad.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, to test this out I logged out of LiveJournal and tried to comment on a post.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Error: this user has turned off anonymous commenting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What the heck, LJ? That&#8217;s so stupid. Why would that be the first option, especially when it&#8217;s turned off? There&#8217;s all these commenting options &#8212; OpenID, Twitter, Facebook &#8212; yet the default is Anonymous when someone clicks from the front page.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like they&#8217;re actively discouraging commenting from non-LJ users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I shut off anonymous commenting on my LiveJournal. I was suddenly getting a lot of weird spam messages because I&#8217;d joined the rankings. There were hundreds of screened comments and there was just no way I could get through them all. LiveJournal never told me they were there, so I probably dropped the ball&hellip;<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/anonymous-comments-on-lj\/\" title=\"Anonymous comments on LJ\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Anonymous comments on LJ<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"Layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-harperkingsley0-0","post-2356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pPoL-C0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2365,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/red-bull\/","url_meta":{"origin":2356,"position":0},"title":"Red Bull","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"April 23, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I can't explain the logic of it, but I flip my Red Bulls upside down for a few seconds before opening them. 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