News module - commenting enhancements

Hi, extremely pleased with website baker so far. Playing with it on my development site and it seems like very robust tool.

I was wondering if anyone had thought of making changes to the news module so that commenting could have inputs and display of the "usual" metadata, such as "author" (for people who aren't aware of the WB backend and just want to leave a blog comment)

Also a spam-challenge, like "type the following word in backwards" would be neat (but I already added that one myself, it's not hard).

I would do the same for the author input, but I'm unsure of how to create a new "field" within the backend. If possible I'd like to replace the entire comment notion of a "user" with a more generic "author" that dosen't need to login. It dosen't need to be secure, I'd just hack some way to make my own name look different from the others. I can't actually code php from scratch, but the language is straightforward enough for me to move stuff around and mostly it ends up working.

thanks for the helps,

-munky