When commenters either register with your system or authenticate to leave a comment on your blog, Movable Type creates a user record for them, and assigns the Commenter Role to that user. This gives blog administrators the ability to view a list of commenters on your blog, and even "trust" or "ban" the user, which impacts how Movable Type will publish comments from that user.

To view a list of commenters on your blog

• Choose Manage > Users from the main menu. This will display the Manage Users screen for the blog, and will default the list to all authors on the blog.
• Locate the Quickfilters tool on the right-hand side of the Manage Users screen and click on the "Commenters" link. This will filter your user view to a list of commenters that have left authenticated comments on your blog.

Viewing details about an individual commenter

• To view details about an individual commenter, click on their username. This will open the Commenter Details screen. From this screen you can view:
  • The commenter's name
  • Their identity token (a field generated by Movable Type for users that have authenticated using an external authentication service)
  • Their email address (if it has been passed by the external authentication service)
  • Their site URL
  • Their status
• From this screen you can also navigate to a filtered view of all the comments left by the individual commenter. Locate the "Useful Links" tool on the right-hand side of the screen and click on "Comments from (commenter name)."

Trusting a commenter

Marking a commenter as "Trusted" means that their comments may be treated differently based on your Comment Settings. For example, you can have comments from trusted comments appear immediately on the site, and bypass any moderation.

To trust a commenter:

• From the Manage > Users screen, locate the commenter you wish to trust, and click on their username. This will open the Commenter Details screen.
• Click the "Trust" button at the bottom of the screen.

Banning a commenter

Banning a commenter means that comments from that user will be automatically marked as spam when they are submitted, and will not be published to your blog.

To ban a commenter:

• From the Manage > Users screen, locate the commenter you wish to trust, and click on their username. This will open the Commenter Details screen.
• Click the "Ban" button at the bottom of the screen.