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this may seem like a stupid question. it feels like a silly issue though. Probably this should be in the bug section but maybe I'm missing something.

Basically, I very recently created a blog using s9y and got my first comment not too long afterwards. yay.

I was about to post a reply to that comment when I noticed something rather ridiculous....

It may just me, but why the heck do I have to supply a name/username/email to post a comment on my own blog when I am logged on as the administrator? I mean, the barking admin! That just doesn't make any sense.

luckily, I don't have to fill the captcha. but that may be because the spamblock plugin works in a slightly different way than whatever handles comments.

can't s9y get all the details automatically? I mean like on wordpress where the text fields aren't even displayed for logged in users.

again, this may just be me. It there a special configuration I have to set? or a plugin I have to download?

if this is a feature, security or otherwise, of s9y, then what I want to know, is Why? and what is the logic/reasoning behind it?

Hi!

Actually, that's simply because it's usual in blogs. Often blogs are somewhat anomyous, and you might not even want to reply as the user that's logged in.

But, help is available. You can install the plugin "User Self-Registration" which also supplies a feature to auto-fill in your username in that commentform.You can disable the other functions of the plugin ifyou don'T want user registrations.

The reasoning simply is/was that when the comment form got created in one of the first instances, no one felt the need to have that feature. You are actually the first one in my 5 years of serendipity forum support who asks for the feature -- so my personal opinion is that having it as a plugin feature might be sufficient?

Regards,
Garvin

And you really only have to supply that information for your very first comment if you check the box marked "remember information"... from that point forward, the site will auto-fill the information.

garvinhicking wrote:Hi!

Actually, that's simply because it's usual in blogs. Often blogs are somewhat anomyous, and you might not even want to reply as the user that's logged in.

But, help is available. You can install the plugin "User Self-Registration" which also supplies a feature to auto-fill in your username in that commentform.You can disable the other functions of the plugin ifyou don'T want user registrations.

The reasoning simply is/was that when the comment form got created in one of the first instances, no one felt the need to have that feature. You are actually the first one in my 5 years of serendipity forum support who asks for the feature -- so my personal opinion is that having it as a plugin feature might be sufficient?

Regards,
Garvin

oh...

actually I added a config.inc.php file to my current theme and registered some variable for logged users (they probably already are available but I haven't figured out all that much about s9y's inner workings) and was editing the [s]comments.tpl[/s] edit-- sorry, commentform.tpl file to include them as hidden form elements if a logged user is detected. But I'll check the plugin. thanks.

I was a wordpress user before. So it has somewhat skewed my perception on how blog software should run. (Except I ran away from wp after the latest blunders in admin interface design...)

however, my reasoning would be, if users can be allowed to register, it would be preferable to limit them to using their registered identity rather than having them running amok and pretending to be someone else whenever they fancy.

of course, you'd ban users who did that. but prevention works too sometimes.

and I mean... if you're the King of the Castle... why do you have to show your id to the guard at the door as if you were just any commoner...?

thanks for replying.