I tried allowing anonymous 
commenting and was flooded with spam, with no legitimate  anonymous 
comments. So now I'm back to requiring  at least an 
OpenID  login.  I'm sorry if  this causes any inconvenience, but dealing with spam has been an  inconvenience to me with no benefit.
 
I have struggled with the commenting thing myself. I still see a large volume of spam comments on a regular basis. I decided to go with the "verify once" and then auto post from that point on scheme within wordpress. It seems to work pretty well but I always feel bad when a comment gets hung up for a bit before I verify it is not spam.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I wish Blogger had something like that verify-once of WP. Google is pushing for G+ integration of Blogger comments. But I would lose tracking of previous, non-G+ comments. (They would still be visible on the blog, just not my own tracking dashboard.)
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