Pros/Cons of Visitors Registering

[AmySueN]

Tina's comment that her do-follow blog does NOT require visitors to register before leaving a comment got me to thinking...

Assuming you moderate all comments, what are the pros/cons of having visitors register before being allowed to comment? Is it better to allow comments without making visitors register?

[mikey.]

In my opinion, queuing user comment for moderation is more than enough, makes them come back to see it up and check out replies to the comment, some bookmark it which is always a plus. You want to make it easy for people to interact with you on your blog, most users online have several things going on at once, if they feel that they have to register to add a few words in or something, they could loose interest all together.

I actually suggest you ignore blog post moderation actually if it's a new blog to attract more users, even if they do spam you a little, you can always edit the comments, but having a blog with blog posts that have 0comments underneath tells new users that this blog is kind of dead.

Hope this helps.

[lordspace]

I moderate my comments at blogspot.
It is nice that blogspot allows to post comments without a need to login.