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

[motodraconis.livejournal.com]

I'd say setting anon comments to screened might be best. Trolls thrive on attention, and screening denies them that.
At the same time, I've seen useful or friendly stuff left by anons, generally by friends or friends-of-friends without LJ's, it would seem a shame to miss out on that sort of dialogue.

I've never disabled anon comments, and get them very rarely it has to be said. One or 2 troll comments in the past 4 years (and they were from LJ troll accounts.) I ignore them and it goes no further, if anything, I like to leave the comments visible as they can be often so foolish as to amuse me wryly.

It sounds like your friend was a victim of a malicious person who knows her or the girl she was speaking of. I'm sorry to hear that. Perhaps if it happens again, there are options of screening/freezing or even deleting a nasty comment after it has been made. If the commenter is ignored or brushed aside by screening that tends to both get rid of them and annoy them too.