Now, maybe I am bitching to the wrong group (and that is HIGHLY possible, because we all know that more people than not use Blogger; which for the record, I am totally fine with, so don’t even go there), but it irks me to no avail that there are so many fun blogs out there that I want to show the love, and comment, and I can’t; because I am not a “Blogger” blogger. Now, I went through all of the tedious work to build all this grandness that you see before you, and I love what I have, but I don’t use Blogger; cause I don’t need to. Not saying that anyone else does need it, I am just saying that I don’t need it. I like Movable Type much better, and so, it suits me. Lots of people hate MT, but I don’t take any offense to that.
But, I feel inexplicably “punished”, if you will, because I don’t have a Blogger Identity. Does this mean that I just need to shut up and get a Blogger ID?
I have to say that this is something that annoys me to the point that I usually don’t even go back to blogs that I cannot comment at. And this is the main reason I like the blog format; we get to share our thoughts with one another, and now, it has gotten to be that if you are not a Blogger blogger, then you are pretty much shown the door. And, I guess the reason I complain, is because I know it doesn’t have to be this way. Those blogs that don’t allow anonymous comments don’t have to be like that; you can use the word verification feature (which a lot of my favorite Blogger blogs use), and decrease your spam that way; TRUST me, I hate spam MORE than you do.
So, with that being said, does anyone else feel this way when they see “Anonymous comments are not allowed on this blog”? I am not anonymous! I always leave my name and my website! You can come visit me! We can talk! Just give me the opportunity to leave you a comment! I am not a spammer! I promise! GAH, I’ll shut up now. (and probably just go get a Blogger ID… but do you think that I really need one? or can we work on this?)
Yeah, it’s so livejournal.
Luckily, I started my blog on blogger so I have that old blogger ID hanging around for anti-anonymousers.
But if I didn’t have a blogger ID, that would indeed annoy me.
But I wouldn’t stop reading a blog because I can’t comment.
I’d only stop reading a blog if the comments were moderated… cause that’s soooooooooo annoying.
I’m just kidding!
Ditto on that!!
Alright LA!!! LOL!! I don’t moderate, so much as savor. Yeah, let’s go with that. I savor them, then share them. Yeah.
I just hate those freaking adbots so much. How the hell do they work anyway? I make a post, and in seconds I have 2 comments, both from idiotic bots. That’s why people refuse to allow anonymous comments, or better yet require you to type the verification thingy.
I don’t know how they work, but the bots/spammers are the reason I preview comments; so I understand the hate of them. I seriously don’t mind doing the word verification though!
Most of the blogs I’ve seen go to “blogger ID required” were being spammed mercilessly by adbots. I don’t really have a problem with needing to get an ID to comment. I had to get a typepad one at one point, because some typepad blogs I wanted to comment on required it.
I just started my blog and I’m going to take what you’ve said into consideration! I wondered about that feature when I was setting up my blog. I agree with you - I’d rather have my blog open to those who can read it. What’s the fun of a blog you can read but cannot comment on???? Okay, so I don’t always comment, but I’d like to know that I could if I wanted to…