Yup. It's basically saying "we can't afford this, so we'll make it not our problem."

FWIW FP briefly used an embedded facebook widget, and a nonzero percent of their livefyre users logged in via FB.

It did little to nothing to stop abusive comments. The HN crowd cares a lot about what sort of history follows around our names and our handles. Many others, both in the western world and abroad, do not.