> On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 10:39 -0500, Josh Rosenberg wrote: >> 2c. Let OpenID users set a display name that doesn't have to be unique >> at >> all. This is perhaps strange in the LJ-code paradigm where display >> names >> are also URLs and therefore have to be unique, but on other blogs where >> users can sign comments with whatever username linked to whatever >> (non-OpenID) URL they want, it's less strange. > > Relatedly, I suggested on IRC this week that maybe we should consider > allowing people to sign a (non-authenticated) name to the category of > comment currently called 'anonymous', so that the DW 'comment posted by' > functionality worked more like blogger et al.
Yeah, I think that makes a lot of sense. I never felt like being able to do that on LJ would too much to an already-anonymous comment, but other people would and do like it a lot, and especially so in forums that get a lot of non-user comments, like blogger is and like DW could be. It would also provide some continuity with letting OpenID users doing the same thing; i.e. all non-DW-users who want to comment, whether anon or OpenID, can "sign" whatever name they want and it shows up in the comment header. Josh _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
