I know, I’m branching this off of my tech blog thing and the first thing I do is to write about Blogger/Blogspot.  That’s just the way things go I guess.

But there’s a good reason for this.  It’s not anything to do with splogs or the overall sameness look of most Blogger blogs.  It has to do with the Blogger comment system.

Over at Sapid Existence I participate in something called Photo Story Friday where people post a photograph and a story that involves it somehow.  I like the exposure and seeing other people’s stuff.

What I don’t like is the number of blogs where I have to have a Blogger account in order to leave a comment.  Only slightly less annoying are the blogs where I have to have a Blogger account or an OpenID account somewhere (which technically I do have but don’t feel like using, so I only have myself to blame for that one).

But what I don’t like the most is that there isn’t any indication on the blogs on what I have to have in order to leave a comment.  Well, there is, but it’s below the comment box so I’ve already read the post and written my comment and then scroll down to see that I won’t be leaving that comment because I don’t have a Blogger account.

It would be nice if there was some way to let people know this before they even read the post.  Because I’m getting tired of writting my comment and then not being able to say it.  Or I guess I could just remember which ones won’t let me leave a comment.  But that doesn’t really help when I haven’t even visited that blog before.