I understand denny's point. It really feels strange to have such a mark in a commentsystem when it's normal on most blogs to be able to comment without login. But maybe that's not an issue on most blogs because they are not part of a community.

Now when thinking about that, "verified" seems to be the wrong label. The identity is not verified apart from having an account on this site - which is an important information, bot in no way a verification. So not linking to a profile, thus implying "this is no dreamwidth-account", looks like a good solution to me. Are you sure that won't work?