You must be the visitor from China I just spotted in our stat logs. I wonder what exactly in the spam filtering software of D5GW is not allowing you to post a comment. No attempt to login for you appears in our activity logs. Hmmm.

I'm glad you highlighted the one point I meant to comment on but forgot when I left my comment at the post.

Yup!

“I wonder what exactly in the spam filtering software of D5GW is not allowing you to post a comment. No attempt to login for you appears in our activity logs. Hmmm.”

I'm not sure. I don't think I attempted a login this time, though since the new system came up I've never been able to comment.

This is why I keep blogspirit, in spite of the craziness (such as the new, slow-loading pages [1]): someone else handles the worst of the spam. It's too much of a job.

[1] http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/05/18/wired-minds-is-very-slow.html

In truth, the commenting problems alone have me leaning toward running the D5GW blog entirely as a blorum; i.e., with the forum software. Typekey logins were fine, except some IE users could not log in that way — including one of the D5GW contributors; so I've gone with the three-pronged approach, or allowing three types of logins. I've registered and logged in with the new on-site registration, through three or four different username/password combos, without a single problem; but if others are having difficulty using this method, I may need to rethink things.

Again: spam sucks.

Unfortunately, I can't delete usernames without deleting the old comments. So I'd need to delete every comment you left under your TypeKey username “tdaxp.” Here's the way it's set up in the system already:

Identity: “tdaxp”

Commenter (display name): “Dan tdaxp”

As long as you use a new identity — it can be “tdksldjfldj” for all it matters — you can still use “Dan tdaxp” under the **nickname** field in the registration. The nickname is what gets displayed for every comment. The only place “tdksldjfldj” would appear, besides the MT backend, is in the link on the little symbol beside your display name; that link will not work to actually link to anything. (That's a problem with the plugin, which will hopefully be fixed.) However, your display name, “Dan tdaxp” will still link to your site if you enter your site address and click, Remember Me, when leaving a comment.

I need to confirm that this will still work for you; and then I need to leave detailed info at the blog for everyone having problems. (You're not the only one; a few others have had problems with the new system, although I think it's a matter of the newness and the peculiarities of the on-site registration system.)

I can log in fine – it recognizes me. But when I try to comment, I get what looks like a misformatted page with the message:

“Comment Submission Error

Your comment submission failed for the following reasons:

Registration is required.

Return to the comment page”

Again, I hate spam. I don't know if I'd object to the death penalty for spammers. Probably not.

Did you register a new account before attempting a login? I wonder if old Typekey cookies on your computer are allowing you to be recognized but not comment. You can register however many accounts you like, but your former username cannot be used in the new accounts. (Each account must have a unique user name.) Since the blog ran on Typekey for a time, you already have a username “Dan tdaxp” in the system. You can, however, pick a new username and use the same display name in the “nickname” field.

The D5GW comment system is complex. It's harder to work with than any other site I know of. It's easier to make new blog posts on other sites than it is to work with. Certainly that's not a bad thing for D5GW's google standings, but I don't have a unique login for any other specific blog… and I think I will maintain that policy.

Technically, the OpenID and LiveJournal logins are cross-blog, cross-domain capable logins.

Since I seem to be able to create multiple accounts using the on-site registration and login, all of which work for me when I leave test comments, perhaps I should just create a dummy account or a set of generic accounts and post the usernames/passwords so that anyone not able to create their own account can still comment.

Never thought about the Google standing, heh.