Blogger allows for several levels of authentication - including no authentication - to allow blog owners to select what degree of anonymity they are willing to permit, in the comments published to their blogs. In Settings - Comments - "Who Can Comment?", we have several selectable authentication levels.
To provide convenience, and encourage some amount of sharing, Blogger provides a selection in the "Comments as:" list, to let anonymous commenters provide a link to any one of their blogs. The "Name/URL" selection lets anonymous commenters setup a temporary profile ("Edit profile") for the comment being published, without coding HTML.
Some bloggers think that the "Name/URL" selection provides some degree of authentication, and that people who post comments and provide a "Name/URL" entry for their comments are identifying themselves. Some blog owners even express a wish to have a separate authentication level for this.
The "Name/URL" selection is purely a convenience for your readers who wish to publish comments anonymously, and who wish to provide a link to a blog / website, without the bother of knowing HTML code. This option, when used, does not provide any authentication. It simply provides unauthenticated identification, and should be regarded with some amount of discretion.
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- Anyone - includes Anonymous Users
- Registered Users - includes OpenID
- Users with Google Accounts
- Only members of this blog
To provide convenience, and encourage some amount of sharing, Blogger provides a selection in the "Comments as:" list, to let anonymous commenters provide a link to any one of their blogs. The "Name/URL" selection lets anonymous commenters setup a temporary profile ("Edit profile") for the comment being published, without coding HTML.
Some bloggers think that the "Name/URL" selection provides some degree of authentication, and that people who post comments and provide a "Name/URL" entry for their comments are identifying themselves. Some blog owners even express a wish to have a separate authentication level for this.
- Anyone - includes Anonymous Users
- "Name/URL" Identification
- Registered Users - includes OpenID
- Users with Google Accounts
- Only members of this blog
The "Name/URL" selection is purely a convenience for your readers who wish to publish comments anonymously, and who wish to provide a link to a blog / website, without the bother of knowing HTML code. This option, when used, does not provide any authentication. It simply provides unauthenticated identification, and should be regarded with some amount of discretion.
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