Comments on: Taking a Stand to Promote OpenID

By: Aaron B. Hockley

Aaron B. Hockley — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:26:53 +0000

Yes, I have OpenID support for comments. If you’re having issues with it let me know either via a comment or an email (aaron at hockley dot org)

By: Wesley Tanaka

Wesley Tanaka — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:41:47 +0000

Does this blog support OpenID comments?

By: Aaron B. Hockley

Aaron B. Hockley — Mon, 18 May 2009 03:35:34 +0000

I didn’t ask that folks require OpenID… only that it be offered as an option.

By: Caloca

Caloca — Mon, 18 May 2009 03:33:09 +0000

lolz, open ids are great, but it will drive the less tech savvy away from commenting on your blog.

By: Daverix

Daverix — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:20:55 +0000

Well I didn't know that it was moderated. The comment system seems to not be yours so I maybe can't ask you about why I can't input my name and website when posting with OpenID either?

By: ahockley

ahockley — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:03:40 +0000

OpenID doesn't have anything to do with spam. I moderate first-time OpenID commenters in the same fashion which I moderate any new commenter… so an OpenID-bot wouldn't be treated any differently than an anonymous bot.

By: Daverix

Daverix — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:50:37 +0000

What about spam? You can make your own openid-provider and just throw out openids that bots can use to spam sites using only openid. You have to have captcha or email verification to get rid of spam. Also why does this comment system rely on that you are using the sreg extension of openid?

By: ahockley

ahockley — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:15:10 +0000

Excellent. The wider the OpenID support, the better.

By: ahockley

ahockley — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:13:50 +0000

Why would you need aggregation? Just because one has many potential OpenIDs, it doesn't mean that all of them need to be used. Best practice would be to delegate a secure OpenID to a personal URL (I use Vidoop, delegated to http://www.aaronhockley.com) for their OpenID, but even without a custom URL one should shoose a relatively permanent provider and use that as their identity.

By: vmlemon

vmlemon — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 03:01:48 +0000

Hmm, anyone else think that with so many people having OpenIDs from different providers, and OpenID aggregator would be a good idea?