Thanks Jeff, but here again that's a very partial solution. The BASIC needs for any site or blog are to allow visitors to post comments, follow-up with them and subscribe to new posts/news. Those needs should be grouped together in core configuration and closely tied to the setting "Users must be registered and logged in to comment".

But this isn't the case, and certainly not planned, so that WP can take this out of your site and manage at their own servers by providing "cool" plugins that let you think you can do "cool" things with them - while they take care of your subscribers and you lose control over them.

This deals with a more global question: who has full control of your site's content? You or third party companies?

The more we give access to those "cool" third party gadgets the more we lose control.