# Additional, optional barriers before commenting on an article?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/additional-optional-barriers-before-commenting-on-an-article/67093>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [30 Luglio 2017, 2:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/additional-optional-barriers-before-commenting-on-an-article/67093 "2017-07-30T02:50:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![factormystic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/factormystic/32/102198_2.png) [@factormystic](https://meta.discourse.org/u/factormystic)\
**Post date:** [30 Luglio 2017, 3:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/additional-optional-barriers-before-commenting-on-an-article/67093/11 "2017-07-30T15:40:42Z")

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Strategies that require tracking the user have a fatal flaw. For public articles and public comments, the user can be logged out while reading and only log in to comment. This happens to be what I have done just now for this post.

Additionally, the user might not even be on the site at all while they spend 10 minutes carefully reading the article, or dozens/hundreds on the site. I almost exclusively read web sites via rss, but your scheme doesn’t know that. Consider also instapaper.

In these cases, it’d appear that I arrived fresh to the discussion and started posting, but that’s not true.

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