Comments on: WordPress blog = open ID. Brilliant!

By: pharmacy

pharmacy — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 20:38:14 +0000

It is nice article! Thanks, good info!

By: grzzap

grzzap — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:42:13 +0000

Nice Site!

By: Tree Box Filters

Tree Box Filters — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 17:37:30 +0000

It’s great. My info just pops up, no matter what WP blog I’m commenting at.

By: rami

rami — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:22:44 +0000

its definately a plus for people like me and also for WP, as its quite deficult to remember password and its ID’s.

great job by word press.

i feel that way more and more people would comment

By: FoolsGold

FoolsGold — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 16:42:01 +0000

New form of spam?
Well on a blog thread dealing with Weekend Travel in Oregon there is a link to a Travel to India site.
So many of these posters seem to merely want visitors to their sites in the hope that some of their pseudo-search engine hits will be visited and some click-metric will be credited to them.

By: FoolsGold

FoolsGold — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:56:12 +0000

Maybe I should learn to proofread!

That should ofcourse be “great many threads” rather than “great many threats”.

I still wonder if there are any consequences (other than wasted time and bandwidth) if I were to click on any of these clickbank sites or .info sites? Are they just trying to build a “click rating” for google ad marketing purposes or do they download spam if someone visits those sites?

Either way, it seems to be a new form of spam to have those blog comments and I think thats the reason there is so much effort being devoted to keeping bots out of blogs and making certain of a blog poster’s identity.

By: FoolsGold

FoolsGold — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 22:12:58 +0000

I’m not quite certain about this ‘open ID’ question.

I’ve certainly noted that on this JoeDuck site a great many threats have had rather inane responses from people who have clickbank or else .info sites. I’ve not been foolish enough to click on any of them though. It seems their comments are often absurd but even if they relate somewhat to the topic of the blog entry, it seems their real purpose is to induce some sort of click on their signature.

clickbank seems to be some sort of scam related to “affiliate marketing” nonsense and is seems that .info seems to be a domain name for what is clearly spam content.

By: Signage Solution

Signage Solution — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 09:26:09 +0000

Personally I think its a great idea!

By: JoeDuck

JoeDuck — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 21:25:55 +0000

Hi J Alan – yup, me too. In fact I even will use registration as a sort of “filter”. Obviously I’ll reg if it’s an important site but if I just want to “check out” one of the hundreds of interesting new applications I’ll use this as a filter.

By: J. Alan Hendricks

J. Alan Hendricks — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:19:08 +0000

Hey Joe,

I have to agree that this is a great idea with WP. I have actually steered away from a few sites that want you to register, because well…I mean how many passwords can we possibly remember?