Commenters: learn how to change your Engadget password, edit your profile
By Ryan Block 
posted November 10th 2007 9:29PM
posted November 10th 2007 9:29PM
- Change your comment password
- See all the comments you've left on various Weblogs, Inc. network sites, like Engadget, Joystiq, Autoblog, etc.
- Change reply notifications on your comment threads
- Add or change your avatar picture (shown only on some sites, like Joystiq, and soonly Engadget)
- Leave a comment, or find the last comment you left. Your handle / name will be linked to the URL of your profile, which will look like: http://www.blogsmith.com/profile/[PROFILE NUMBER]/. The date / time is the permalink for the comment itself, so you'll want to hit the profile link to visit your profile (duh).
- On your profile page you'll see lots of information about your comment history. You can also hit "... Login Here" to log in and make changes to your profile. Even though this profile system is still relatively new, it will show the comments you've ever left. [Engadget trivia nerds will know I've have actually been commenting since we started in 2004. Apparently my account changed in July of 2005.]
- Once you're in you can do a number of things, including make edit your profile (and make it private); add an avatar picture (offensive / inappropriate avatars may result in a banned account); even change your comment password (huzzah!).
Important note: logins on Engadget and Weblogs, Inc. sites are not persistent, so you'll have to enter your comment password each time you leave one. (We're working on improving that experience, of course.)
- Other fun things you can do: disable reply notification on comment threads you've started and see a list of all the comments you've left.
nice i can stop using that random password
oh wow now I can finally post more often, thx a lot!
Thanks guys! Been wondering how to change the password.
Nice.
Checking it out....
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Cool.
Neat, going to have to try it out... right after i post this ;)
so now I'm trying this! I never knew there even were accounts.......
testing..
I am outforprophets but I can't login with my posting password. What gives?
cool beanz
Thanks Ryan!
a funny exam - as in test tickle
Awesome news.
sweet, i'll be commenting more now lol.
That's neat!
Comment time.
this helps quite a bit
testing...
nice. trying it now.
thanks
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Finally!
nice
my password doesn't work.......
hii
Testing
not working
Wow, I just looked at this post 15 minutes ago and there was 6 comments, now it reads 133 and counting. Hooray commenters.
Where's the OpenID support?
Already so many comments!
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Yeah, I'm trying it out too.
first...oh.
sweeeeet (only posting because I can't be @rsed to search for my last post)
About time
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This is so simple, but amazingly helpful. Now when I take a few minutes out of class to read the new articles at school, I don't have to log into my gamil, search through old emails, and copy/paste that rediculous password. Thank You!!!
sweet! its so easy…
sweet
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vcxvcxbvc
Time to quit copying and pasting my password from a Mail archive!
Yay!!
Obscurity, thy name is Engadget User System
I'd like to see my profile, too.
Lemme test this.
Yo
Figured this out a few weeks ago. It's definitely handy, but not a great solution.
But is there a way to recover your password?
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