Hi!

Actually, that's simply because it's usual in blogs. Often blogs are somewhat anomyous, and you might not even want to reply as the user that's logged in.

But, help is available. You can install the plugin "User Self-Registration" which also supplies a feature to auto-fill in your username in ...

this may seem like a stupid question. it feels like a silly issue though. Probably this should be in the bug section but maybe I'm missing something.

Basically, I very recently created a blog using s9y and got my first comment not too long afterwards. yay.

I was about to post a reply to that ...