Introducing a simpler blog commenting system

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I decided to come up with a completely custom commenting system that is a super fast, simple and auth-free way to collect all the data needed. The solution – a wordpress twitter hybrid commenting system.

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While I agree with the simple goal and spirit of this, it is irresponsible to not provide authorization when it would be trivial to implement. I wonder if the author would be so nonchalant about it if someone posted damaging comments using his name (and photo) over a few hundred blogs?

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