Dear Live­Jour­nal peeps,
There are many of you (I’ve specif­i­cally run into this with sakkara­noush and torgo_x) who have jour­nals that don’t allow OpenID peo­ple to leave com­ments.  You’ve friended me and so I can see pro­tected entries, but I’m unable to write a com­ment.  Look­ing through the FAQ, I see this info:

Cur­rently on Live­Jour­nal, OpenID com­ments count as anony­mous com­ments for the pur­pose of allow­ing com­ments and as com­ments from reg­is­tered users for the pur­poses of screen­ing com­ments. To allow OpenID com­ments, a user must also set his or her account to allow anony­mous com­ments. There is no way to allow a spe­cific OpenID account to com­ment with­out enabling anony­mous commenting.

It looks like you need to go to your “Com­ment Set­tings” and then “Enable com­ment­ing from Every­body.”  Option­ally, you can enable screen­ing.  Or you can do noth­ing at all and your jour­nal remains read-only for me.

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