I gave them my site address. I’m afraid they’re going to rip off my head and shit down my neck about it. “It’s awful. I don’t see why she has readers”, etc. I’m worried about the results, which will hit me like a surprise because I turned in my information a couple of days ago and I know it’ll be two or three months before I’m review’d. Eek.

Tom – After the debacle at blogsnob I understand your concerns.  I know that I am getting less comments than before I changed to pMachine and required registration.  Whether that’s the content or the (very simple) registration procedure I don’t know.  I know that whenever I visit unproductivity.com I have to enter my details every time!  I know that I can just leave a name but I want people to contact me and entering all my details everytime I visit a site IMO is worse than registering.  Of course this doesn’t stop me visiting!

I agree about the rules and will look into that – thanks!

As for where the passwords are stored at lease I can answer that one.  They are stored in a pasword protected mySQL database on a server seperate to the blog.  They are also stored in an encrypted form within that database.  For example the password for my test account shows up as 02a8f86144dedd1ec2f3ed3d86c06162 :zoink: 

Just being honest here: I have to say that registering just to post comments is easily the most annoying thing I have ever encountered on a weblog.  If I didn’t already enjoy this site, it would make me back out and never come back.  I think it’s going to hurt your site if you keep that option up.  PLUS, if you’re going to insist on registering people, PLEASE include the rules for name length, spaces, etc, on the page you register on.  I had to go through that thing about 4 times just to register, resubmitting my password over and over.  It also worries me – where is this password stored?  I don’t know if I’m like others or not, but I tend to use the same password on most things I log into.  Now you or anyone who gets access to the passwords could have access to things I’d like them to not have access to.