[wp-hackers] "commenter" user role

[William Canino]

Scribu,

Before anything else, the English word is "commentator".  "Commenter"
is not a word. :)

I think all you mean is adding an extra functionality to the existing
"Only registered users may comment" feature.  In other words, you want
to combine registration and commenting in one step, in one html form.

That's fine, simple enough and is plugin material.  Note that as a
consequence, because he or she is a newly-registered user, each new
commentator would receive the usual "new user" email.

Guys, let's not fret about the security implications here.  Any
blogger who wants this is already using the  "Only registered users
may comment" feature.

> Later, if somebody wants to comment with the same email, but with a
> different name, a new password will be sent to them via email, verifying
> that it's the same person.

No, this should produce an error, e.g., "email already exists. please
login instead".  If the commentator wants to change his name, he can
visit his Edit Profile screen.  As of today, as you know, this doesn't
change the name displayed in all his past comments.

W

On 6 March 2010 04:33, scribu <scribu at gmail.com> wrote:
> From the "widget as post type" thread:
>
> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Brian Layman <Bulk at thecodecave.com> wrote:
>
>> Agreed.  A more appropriate  action would be to consider comments a post
>> type.  That would be a hard one to argue against especially because you
>> could even do things like promoting a comment to be a Post/top point in a
>> conversation. Not that I look forward to that expensive merge process..
>>
>
> You can't have comments in the post table because most comments don't come
> from logged-in users. As such, the wp_comments table has several
> user-related columns.
>
> I never liked the duplication that occurs: when a logged-in user leaves a
> comment: his email, for example, is stored both in the wp_users table, and
> the once more for each comment.
>
> The first time somebody leaves a comment, we could create a new user, with
> the "commenter" role.
>
> Later, if somebody wants to comment with the same email, but with a
> different name, a new password will be sent to them via email, verifying
> that it's the same person.
>
>
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