Comment tracking

[Brad Fitzpatrick]

On Thu, 19 May 2005, Christopher Whipple wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> Had an idea this morning for builing comment tracking features into
> publishing platforms piggybacking on OpenID functionality.  Here's how it'd
> work:
>
> I use my blog url to authenticate - the someblog.com server checks my blog
> and pings my OpenID server.  I'm authenticated and leave my comment.  The
> someblog.com server then checks my blog again to find a url where my blog
> accepts incoming pings, sends a ping saying "you just left a comment here,
> here's the comment's permalink and here's some info about the blog where you
> left the comment".  My blogging tool then takes care of tracking/displaying
> that information.
>
> Thoughts?

I wouldn't do this without comment signing.  Otherwise any site could just
hit your blog publisher's ping URL and claim that you wrote things which
you might not have.  But comment signing is something that I do think
would fit into here at some point.

- Brad