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1. relsqui
   Member
   Jul 25, 2012, 1:39 AM

   I was trying to leave a comment on someone else's WordPress blog, using a secondary email address. It claimed that email address belonged to a WP account, and invited me to log into that account. I tried logging in using that email address, and failed. When I tried to reset my password, and supplied that email address, it said there was no such user--i.e. I can't comment without logging in because the address is associated with a WP account, but I can't reset the password using the address because it isn't associated with a WP account!

   I (obviously) do have a WP account, but my secondary email address isn't listed on it. It *is*, however, listed on my Gravatar account (which also shares my primary email with WP). Could it be that having my secondary email on my Gravatar account is preventing me from commenting without logging in, but because the address isn't on my WP account, I can't log in to comment either? If not, what else could be going on?

2. timethief
   Member
   Jul 25, 2012, 3:37 AM

   These explain what's changed when it comes to commenting and why it was changed:
   Recent update to commenting:
   http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/recent-update-to-commenting?replies=4
   http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/you-must-be-logged-in-to-comment/page/11?replies=327#post-852388

3. relsqui
   Member
   Jul 26, 2012, 4:35 PM

   Thanks. I still think that's a terrible set of error messages for what's going on--how on earth would I have figured that out if I hadn't known gravatar and WP are related and come here to ask?--but it does seem to explain it.

   I suppose that was around the same time as "email me replies to this comment" stopped working entirely. I'm sure there's a perfectly good reason for that destruction of functionality too, though.

4. timethief
   Member
   Jul 26, 2012, 4:54 PM

   Hi again,
   I'm sorry you had such a hard time with this.

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