disabling anonymous comments?

[xela]

A discussion on a friend's journal just convinced me that I want to entirely disable anonymous comments in my journal*. And I cannot find any way to set such an option. Am I just missing it, or does it really not exist?

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* My friend posted to congratulate one of her friends on an accomplishment; an anonymous troll hijacked the discussion by attacking her friend's achievement. It's hardly the first time I've seen that kind of thing in LJ, and the vast majority of anonymous posting I see here is either that or someone forgetting to log in. I would just as lief have neither in my LJ.

Comments

[cfox.livejournal.com]

Consider screening, rather than disabling the comments you don't want. (I screen anonymous comments, then delete or unscreen them as I see fit when I get the notification email). It's roughly equivalent to maintaining a moderated mailing list.

If you allow comments from only a subset of readers, all readers will see the comment link and get a text entry box to type in; those you've disabled comments from will only be told about it when they click "post comment". I find it truly infuriating to type a comment, only to have it completely rejected, unread.

[yakshaver.livejournal.com]

Screening is certainly a smaller hammer, and there's merit in that.