Improve UI for commenting when not logged in

[tim]

Title:
Improve UI for commenting when not logged in

Area:
entries

Summary:
Users who are not familiar with Dreamwidth may not realize they can post comments on public posts in journals that have anonymous commenting disabled but OpenID enabled. I suggest improving the text that's part of the comment area.

Description:
I have anonymous commenting disabled on my journal, but have OpenID commenting enabled. If someone isn't familiar with DW and follows a link to one of my public posts, and they want to comment, what they see is a grayed-out "anonymous" radio button option and a grayed-out "OpenID" radio button, with the text "OpenID commenting on this post is limited. Please sign in here." To someone who is reading quickly, I don't think that text conveys the message "You can post a comment here using credentials you already have." Indeed, I had someone think that they couldn't comment on my blog without buying a DW account.

I suggest changing the text that appears when non-logged-in users view the comment areas on public entries to say "You can comment here without creating a Dreamwidth account, using OpenID", with a link to an explanation of OpenID. I'd welcome any comments as to how to make that text even more user-friendly -- I just know it's not good enough as is.

Poll #5110 Improve UI for commenting when not logged in

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 38

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Should be implemented as-is.
28 (73.7%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
8 (21.1%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
2 (5.3%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)