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[arethinn]

Latest:

Update: Thank you for taking the time to offer your honest feedback. We understand and appreciate your desire for privacy. We share your concerns. Most of us would not want to publish our LiveJournal usernames or FO comments to Facebook or Twitter either (to the extent we even use them). Please give us a little time to address your concerns. We are listening, and we'll do our best to respond.

First sarcastic response: Uh huh. Listening. Like so many other times. (There's a reason I let one of my LJ accounts expire in May and will let the other do so in November.)

Second disbelieving response: So why did you even spend the time developing and implementing a feature which had this OBVIOUS consequence???

Comments

[dragonzuela.livejournal.com]

Ok, here's your test comment :)

[arethinn]

Hmmm. So OpenID counts as registered user on LJ, but not here? I dunno. I'll have to do some more thorough testing at some point. I don't particularly want truly anonymous comments, see.

[dragonzuela.livejournal.com]

"None of us would ever want to use this, but we implemented it because we thought you social media zombies would just eat it up!"

(Tried to comment on your Dreamwidth, but it wouldn't allow me with OpenID.)

[arethinn]

Hmmm. I wonder if the "registered accounts" feature works differently on DW. From the comments on LJ I get the idea that OpenID counts as "registered" (i.e., non-anonymous). Maybe that's not the case on DW? Here, I've just changed it to "everybody". Try again, just for test purposes?