It hadn't occured to me that a side-effect of your experimentation would of course be an account you could comment with. I'll add it to my friends list so you can automatically comment unscreened.

You know, it hadn't occured to me either until I actually came to leave the comment and saw the "Username" field.

Must work out how to do that thing that makes Hydragenic's RSS feed available to LJ users as a pseudo-friend.