Please don't prepopulate the Your name field on comments with Anonymous. This encourages less-detailed identity information.

Leave it blank instead.

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#5 drupal.comment-author-anon.5.patch1.64 KBsun
#2 anonymous-commenting.patch711 bytesmr.baileys

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yoroy’s picture

yoroy commented

This encourages less-detailed identity information

Nice one. Worthy of a patch imo. Good example of the 'Provide sane defaults' UX strategy. Assuming anonymous here is worse than leaving blank.

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mr.baileys
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Title: "Your name" shiould not be prepopulated with Anonymous » "Your name" should not be prepopulated with Anonymous
Status: Active » Needs review
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new anonymous-commenting.patch711 bytes

This should do the trick.

Status: Needs review » Needs work

The last submitted patch, anonymous-commenting.patch, failed testing.

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Tom Ash commented

I'd second this suggestion; I work for a site that gets a lot of comments on its articles, and we have a real problem with people sticking to 'Anonymous' (apart from anything else, it makes it very difficult to tell commenters apart)

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sun
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Status: Needs work » Needs review
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new drupal.comment-author-anon.5.patch1.64 KB

Let's try this once more.

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idflood commented

Patch is working fine for me and the code looks good.

I tested the following without and then with the patch:
- create a story with comment enabled
- assign "Post comments" permision to anonymous user
- logout then go to the new story and create a comment.
- create two comment. One with a random username and the other with an empty one
- login as admin and approve the new comments

Result: Same functionality. Only the default input is changed as expected. This patch is definitely ok for me.

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yoroy commented
Status: Needs review » Reviewed & tested by the community

Thanks for testing. Lets do it

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dries commented
Status: Reviewed & tested by the community » Fixed

Committed to CVS HEAD. Thanks.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.