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Branch ([personal profile] branchandroot) wrote 2009-08-09 03:41 pm (UTC)

*blinks* I don't have your OpenID friended. Nor is that the problem, from what I can see. Your DW OpenID account does not show any email address on the profile page or elsewhere; it's your IJ profile that shows it. So, although it's a bit of closing the barn door after the horse is stolen, you just need to set your IJ profile to not show any email.

And of course you can access your OpenID account! It's yours; you're the only one who can control it. Just log out of dw, and go to the home page. Under the regular log-in boxes, click on the "log in with OpenID" link. Type das-dingsi.insanejournal.com into the text-box that comes up, and, when you're directed to IJ for confirmation, tell it, yes, trust DW (at least once). That means IJ is allowed to say, basically "yeah, he's from here". That will log you in to your OpenID on DW, and you will be able to do whatever you want. If you really want to delete the account, you can, though I don't recommend that; it would just mean you couldn't control your imported comments any more.

Linking accounts is one of the things that is in the pipeline, here, but it isn't here yet. So is mass management of one's own comments, but I think that's still in the design stage, too.

What would be most useful, in my opinion, is an option to turn off that "forwarding" email that's automatically supplied to paid accounts, because it's so easy to guess. Just harvesting usernames and then slapping an @whateverjournal.com on them has got to be the easiest spam approach ever. *makes a face*

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