Not all blog owners understand the need for people to post anonymous comments, against our blog posts. Periodically, in Blogger Help Forum: How Do I?, we see the naivete expressed by some.
You, as a blog owner, have the ability to select the level of authentication, to be required of anybody preparing to post a comment to your blog. For "Who Can Comment?", we find the selection list
People who wish to comment anonymously, yet provide a "Name" / "URL" to link back to their Blogger profile, or their blog / website, may do this at their discretion. Anybody doing this provides no guarantee of being genuine, however.
If you allow "anonymous users" to comment, then people who wish to comment anonymously need to be assured that their privacy will be respected. You can gather demographic data about your blogs visitors - and you may infer specific details about individual commenters - but the relevance of that policy will be limited by the precautions exercised by your commenters.
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How do I find out who is posting anonymous comments to my blog?These people do not understand the need for anonymous commenting.
You, as a blog owner, have the ability to select the level of authentication, to be required of anybody preparing to post a comment to your blog. For "Who Can Comment?", we find the selection list
- Anyone - includes Anonymous Users
- Registered Users - includes OpenID
- Users with Google Accounts
- Only members of this blog
People who wish to comment anonymously, yet provide a "Name" / "URL" to link back to their Blogger profile, or their blog / website, may do this at their discretion. Anybody doing this provides no guarantee of being genuine, however.
If you allow "anonymous users" to comment, then people who wish to comment anonymously need to be assured that their privacy will be respected. You can gather demographic data about your blogs visitors - and you may infer specific details about individual commenters - but the relevance of that policy will be limited by the precautions exercised by your commenters.
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Comments
You will miss out on a lot of great comments otherwise.
All the spam comments I have had all have linked back to a site so they didn't even want to be anonymous.
I'm really much more interested in having personal interactions on the basis of what I write.
As Lori said all the spams are linked back to a site or a blog and they leave nice messages and some even comment on the post.
I have received some good anonymous comments.
Never had a problem in four years of blogging II have another blog).
One of the comments I remember is of an anonymous woman that told part of the story of her life.
Very interesting.
that is why I came here to read this blog and get some viewpoints.