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Change to commenting and IP logging policy

I've changed the blog settings to allow anonymous commenting and log only the IP of anonymous commenters. Not that I put much stock in IP logging anyway, but maybe it'll be a data point with troublemakers who are careless or technologically unaware. I might turn off anonymous commenting if it turns out not to be worth it--I turned anon off on my main Tumblr for a reason--but I won't be logging the IP of logged-in commenters again. That was a case of apathetically going with the default, not a really conscious decision on my part.

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Yay! So happy to hear this. I was going to post something about it on my DW because I think it's the default setting, and I'm not sure most people even realize it's a thing. <3

Yeah it was the comment in your message, plus growing awareness of privacy from the posts I came across on the fediverse, that helped me decide to look at these settings for literally the first time in the years I've been on DW. So thank you for that, and I think posting about it would help spread awareness too if you still feel like making that post.

IP logging seems like a peculiar combination of intrusiveness (for good-faith commenters) and futility (for trolls with some technological capability), though there is that in-between gap with inept trolls which is why I'm still logging anonymous commenters. I respect the setting if it's a conscious choice especially since commenters are warned in advance, but bloggers often use the default setting out of sheer inertia and I don't think enough commenters are cognizant of what it means.