I used to get atleast 3 - 5 comments on my earlier blog. After the move to antville.org, I had written one nice article and was wondering, why there were no comments. Thats when my friend informed me that you have to register inorder to comment.

This is highly distressing.

As you people know, hardly 5 % of people who read an article comment on it. and only 1 % of that 5 % will comment if they are forced to register. All blog sites thrive because of reader comments.

Dont you think, you people should allow anonymous commenting ??

Please help me out if there is already a way to acheive this. This seems to be the only sore spot in an otherwise amazing site + application.

Thanks and regards. www.itismylife.com

I was with them, it was pure hell to get someone making a comment there

so I am absolutely okay with ant.ville

and even got a few formerly non-registrants making comments -it works

how about this...

pop.antville.org

its just a quick hack, what do you think?

anonymous posting is not possible with current antville - and i don't think we're going to enable it. of course one has to register first to post a comment, but it's only necessary once for all weblogs hosted here (it doesn't matter via which weblog one is registering). and since nobody needs to wait for the password getting mailed to be able to post a comment, it takes just a two clicks (and a pretty short time). using the "remember me"-feature one even doesn't have to login anymore, so i don't think that's too much to ask for.

if you want anonymous comments, use one of the external free comment systems for blogger instead of antville's comments. they are based on the fact that every post has a unique id number. same here. look at the url of an antville story. it is sitename.antville.org/date/id/. it shouldn't behard to tweak these comment javascripts to work with your site.

I have an account but I think this comment will work w/o my logging in. Let's see. MEM