This threw me for a loop when I created my LW account. It took some searching around before I found this answer in the solved section of the bug reporting page for the site. In hindsight it seems simple enough, but perhaps it should be added to the wiki page on posting that you need to confirm account via email first.
Oh wow, I tried logging in to it and the reply buttons on existing comments weren’t even there. Thanks for providing the account and pointing this out.
Two hypotheses come to mind, firstly, as estimator said, perhaps you missed something about the email confirmation when you set up the account, (same for Halfwitz), and secondly, maybe it’s an IP address thing intended to discourage throwaway accounts?
Created throwaway, couldn’t comment.
(So as to not propagate throwaways testing this, account is less_than_2, and the password is 123456)
AFAIK, you should confirm email to comment.
This threw me for a loop when I created my LW account. It took some searching around before I found this answer in the solved section of the bug reporting page for the site. In hindsight it seems simple enough, but perhaps it should be added to the wiki page on posting that you need to confirm account via email first.
Confirming confirmed :p
Oh wow, I tried logging in to it and the reply buttons on existing comments weren’t even there. Thanks for providing the account and pointing this out.
Two hypotheses come to mind, firstly, as estimator said, perhaps you missed something about the email confirmation when you set up the account, (same for Halfwitz), and secondly, maybe it’s an IP address thing intended to discourage throwaway accounts?