To which I gnash my teeth and make a sacrifice to the Gods of Spam Prevention

[goldkin]

It's once again come to my attention that my journal is preventing people from commenting. This is probably due to the fact I had my journal set to "registered accounts" instead of "everyone", mucking up OpenID authentication.

So, if y'all were squelched or otherwise couldn't reply, do let me know -- anonymously if you have to. I'm curious if this Dreamwidth conversion is as seamless for you as I thought it was.

Comments

[goldkin]

The most sensible thing to me, if I were reimplementing the comment system, would be to replace the drop-down list with a list box or list of check boxes. This is because Dreamwidth allows three primary methods of authentication (DW registration, access list, and OpenID) which aren't necessarily hierarchical.


Allowing the user to specify, as follows:

Allow comments from:

[ ] Access list
[ ] Registered users
[ ] OpenID and third parties
[ ] Anonymous users

(If you select nothing, comments will be disabled.)

... would present the best view for the user, even if some selections don't make intuitive sense. Filters are implied, and thus not part of the list.

That's how I'd do it, anyway.