Les recuerdo que hoy es la posada Blogger 2008. Tomará lugar en el Café Trecelunas. Espero que puedan asistir. Habrá rifas, regalos y mucha gente carismática.

I wish to have a blog in Blogger and post anonymously. I also wish to receive comments from users, and be able to post anonymously. I wish to do this secretly while keeping my current Google Account.

I just discovered that if a Blogger user that wishes to remain anonymous enables comments, his identity is compromised — even if you prevent your name from showing using Layouts, and even if you use the embedded comments form in the current layout.

An anonymous reader only needs to go to the post page, get the blogId, the postID, fill the following URL

https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=##############&postID=##############

And you get the Full Page version of the comments form with the ‘Show/Hide Original Post’ containing a text signature with the display name (‘posted by nickname’). Google the ‘nickname’ and — if it’s rather popular — you get a Blogger Profile page.

By publishing this here, I hope Blogger Draft Developers can bring additional functionality to shy Bloggers that wish to rant and retain the same Google Account while selectively writing anonymously in some blogs.

I think this can easily be fixed by disallowing Full Page views if another Comment Form Placement option is used.

P.S. Also, from the Blog Feed you can get who the Author is (Display Name and email). You can prevent emails from showing by changing that option while editing the Blogger Profile, but the Display Name still shows even if you use Feed Burner’s SmartCast… It will show inside an element called &lt,managingeditor>noreply@blogger.com (‘Display Name’)</managingeditor>

P.P.S. I know that all this can be avoided by disabling feeds and comments, but I really wish to keep those enabled.

The problem is that I’ve succeeded in creating a Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional webpage…
(If you don’t beleive me, check the following image link out!)

But the blogger code seems to be acting up and messes everything up. *Sigh*… one day… I’ll become valid… I promise.

Oh well,… since I’m getting closer to being valid, my scores at Silktide seem to be rising. Yay.

I think I might ask you guys a favor. Or anybody that happens to stumble upon this blog. I’m going to ask you to go and rate this blog over there. Please click on the above image and… why not give me a high rating? I’d appreciate it.