Anonymous commenting on blogs, albums now enabled

Anonymous commenting on blogs, albums now enabled

We have activated anonymous commenting on blogs and photo albums.
By default, it is turned off. You can go to you blog/album settings page, and select "Yes" for "Allow anonymous comments?".


We are reading your bug reports, feature requests, and working towards an even better Community Site. So don't stop posting!

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question:
Will anonymous commentors be easily identified as such? Meaning, will I know straight away that the comment was not made by a member?

Reason I ask is that if someone were to leave a comment that I felt needed some sort of follow up, as in hunt down a spammer etc., would I know not to bother PMing the culprit.

I'm afraid I just can't remember the names of 200+ members - hehe.

Originally posted by trollop:

Meaning, will I know straight away that the comment was not made by a member?

Yes. Posting anonymously can only be done when the commenter not logged in. In this case the comment is shown as

[Name given by commenter] writes:

blah blah blah blah

Comment by anonymous user - Thursday, 10. November 2005, 17:11:55

Can anonymous comments be deleted by the blog owner? Otherwise, blogs with anon enabled will soon be bristling with spam...

>Bela<

Originally posted by filbo:

Can anonymous comments be deleted by the blog owner?

Yes. The owner of a blog/photo album, can delete comments.

We want IP
And human validation

Originally posted by SerbianFighter:

We want IP

Long-time storage of people's IPs is a bit of an iffy business. Displaying it is even worse. Perhaps censoring the most significant 8bits would be good enough...

Originally posted by SerbianFighter:

And human validation

You mean a moderation queue of sorts?

Long-time storage of people's IPs is a bit of an iffy business. Displaying it is even worse. Perhaps censoring the most significant 8bits would be good enough...

Well... Owners should have access if they want to report abuse to provider...

You mean a moderation queue of sorts?

No.. anti robotic images

Originally posted by SerbianFighter:

No.. anti robotic images

Both Sagar and I know what you mean, and we'll try to make it so. Just send me a PM if you feel it doesn't get done in time!

Stephan

No probl mate, i just felt i should reply

So... to remind

Till today I didn't feel this was important, but today I recieved couple of I believe automated "gambling" related comments... so... I would like to prevent that.. and if someone if typing it manually.. than it would be a lot less work to delete it

Now.. look at this....
And it all works so slow I can't delete anything...

And look at here:
http://my.opera.com/pwef/blog/show.dml/92872
And here:
http://my.opera.com/community/blogs/index.dml?show=com

(I disabled anon blogging on that group of mine, but the damage is done, and since this is so slow i can't delete that, so I'm asking you to delete it automatically if possible )

Originally posted by stephan:

Originally posted by SerbianFighter:

No.. anti robotic images

Both Sagar and I know what you mean, and we'll try to make it so. Just send me a PM if you feel it doesn't get done in time!

Stephan

Bring on the captchas...my blog got hit with a crapload of spam comments overnight... I got them wiped out no problem, but...

I asked for the clean up.. I really don't have time and energy to delete manually 450 same comments.

Nor would I, nor would I. Didn't realize you had 450 of the things... :O

I only had eight...

Showing comments 11 - 20 of 447.
http://my.opera.com/WhyOpera/blog/show.dml/66554?startidx=10

Previous 1 [ 2 ] 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 Next

And only 2 pages are real ....

Originally posted by bhtooefr:

Originally posted by stephan:

Originally posted by SerbianFighter:

No.. anti robotic images

Both Sagar and I know what you mean, and we'll try to make it so. Just send me a PM if you feel it doesn't get done in time!
Stephan

Bring on the captchas...my blog got hit with a crapload of spam comments overnight... I got them wiped out no problem, but...

Using captchas would not be very popular. They are horrible both in accessibility and usability.

I suspect that people who read my blog and aren't Opera Community members (and don't care to be) would rather have the ability to comment, and have to use a captcha, rather than have to sign up for the Opera Community to comment.

I'm half tempted to turn off anonymous comments, simply because of the spambots that are coming in... a captcha would keep me from doing that.

Also, the captcha could be optional, much like the one on Blogger.

+1 for the anti robotic images

Originally posted by jax:

Using captchas would not be very popular. They are horrible both in accessibility and usability.

Simply use the same thing you use for signup page...

Thanks for the cleanup

Regrettably, I forgot to check whether any of those were posted after we added the captchas. Captchas should work though. Works at my end at least. Please notify me ASAP if they don't (seem to) work for you guys.

Doesn't work... It submits comment even with wrong text entered...
Just tried it... first comment is with ok text, second with just "wwwwwwwwww"

*smacks head against asphalt*

Forgot to transfer a file. Now it works, anyway. The error message upon wrong entry is as per usual our usual crappy, non-descript messages. Better error messages is on the todo list.

Once again thanks for helping us users and implementing this

It works GREAT!

THANK YOU!