I think I see what you are saying: that adding more options doesn't really provide more choice, just more ways of doing things within a more rigid structure?

I am slightly concerned with the way they have handled the comment changes in 2.7 because they are removing the choice for themers, but having decided to go with Disqus now it makes little difference to me.

Monika, I have completely changed the comment system so this should not happen any more. This was almost certainly down to my anti-spam system which was cookie based and might not have played well with your browser.

Apologies.

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this time wp 2.7 to design comments theme authors have less freedom than WP > 2.7

more options is less freedom for the theme author and less freedom for the user, because every option offers a way – most of the time 3,5,6,7,8 ways but not all ways to use this or that plugin this or that feature.

for customers I do like premium theme authors but not for *all * WP user.

I realise that german wp user prefer other things and features as blogger from usa – I don’t know why but I see it.

I ‘m afraid that the way your question is going we try to *paternalism* blogger -

simple as possible – not difficult and less options

Monika

I hate your formular – most of the time I lost my comment, because I have the false things in false order – most of the time I could use my automatic form of the browser – I hope I can remember all my words for the next try-maybe this kills spammer, maybe but sure it kills my time and my patenience ….