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Ask HN: Purpose of email address in blogs' comment box?
WordPress blogs (and some other websites) require email addresses. The email addresses are only used for sending notification of replies, isn't it? (or a kind of CAPTCHA). Some people are reluctant to type their real email or just give up leaving a comment. The owners may miss some opinions from those people then.
Sample page:
http://wpthemetutorial.com/2013/05/02/working-with-vagrant-and-wordpress-basics/
- hollerith 13y agoWhat email address in comment box? https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sirtel https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sirtel has a field for email address, but that is a profile page, not a comment box. Did you mean to write "profile page"?
- sirtel 13y ago(My name is green, oh I'm a green hand then) Sorry, my fault. I mean comment box in a blog. One must type email address before submitting. like this: http://wpthemetutorial.com/2013/05/02/working-with-vagrant-and-wordpress-basics/ http://wpthemetutorial.com/2013/05/02/working-with-vagrant-a...