You Must Be Registered???
July 23rd, 2008 2 comments »»Wordcount: 364
“You must be logged in to post a comment.” Are you serious? Do you know how annoying it is to read a blog all the way through only to realize the person who created the blog wants you to register just to be able to leave a comment? Ok, granted, it is the right and prerogative of the website owner or author of said blog to only allow comments from registered users, but if that’s the case.. why do you even allow your blog to be read by the public at all? If you only want feedback from registered users, then why not make it so only people who have a password may view your posts? You want visitors, you want traffic, yet readers have to register in order to be able to leave feedback. That is so incredibly rude in my opinion. If you are concerned with spam, or people leaving rude comments Wordpress has a moderation panel so that you can moderate any comment that is left on your site. And there are so many different ways to avoid spam comments now, my favorite being Akismet, that I just don’t see why you even have this feature turned on. I for one will not register just to leave a comment on your website. I will more than likely not come back to your site again, as I see no point in it if I cannot leave feedback, and making people register just to comment on your site is just plain stupid. What are you afraid of anyway? Are you afraid that people won’t agree with your opinions? Are you worried that someone will say something that you don’t like or agree with, or are you scared of criticism? It’s got to be something like that. I welcome feedback, and comments on my website. Yes, they are moederated, but you do not have to be a registered member of my website or blog in order to post comments. I just don’t see the point in that at all. If you are one of those people who requires someone to register in order to comment, could you please explain this to me?

























