diff --git a/app/models/user.rb b/app/models/user.rb
index c12730dba..ceaf9f564 100644
--- a/app/models/user.rb
+++ b/app/models/user.rb
@@ -48,7 +48,6 @@ class User
       to_group = self.group_by_id(opts[:to])
       if from_group && to_group
         posts_to_move = from_group.posts.find_all_by_person_id(friend.id)
-        puts posts_to_move.inspect
         to_group.people << friend
         to_group.posts << posts_to_move
         from_group.person_ids.delete(friend.id.to_id)
@@ -167,7 +166,6 @@ class User
     object = Diaspora::Parser.from_xml(xml)
     Rails.logger.debug("Receiving object:\n#{object.inspect}")
     Rails.logger.debug("From: #{object.person.inspect}") if object.person
-    object.person.save if object.is_a?(Comment) && Person.find_by_id(object.person_id).nil?
     raise "In receive for #{self.real_name}, signature was not valid on: #{object.inspect}" unless object.signature_valid?
     if object.is_a? Retraction
       if object.type == 'Person' && object.signature_valid?
@@ -183,7 +181,7 @@ class User
         }
       end
     elsif object.is_a? Request
-      person = Diaspora::Parser.get_or_create_person_object_from_xml( xml )
+      person = Diaspora::Parser.parse_or_find_person_from_xml( xml )
       person.serialized_key ||= object.exported_key
       object.person = person
       object.person.save
@@ -197,6 +195,9 @@ class User
       person.save  
 
     elsif object.is_a?(Comment) 
+      object.person = Diaspora::Parser.parse_or_find_person_from_xml( xml ).save if object.person.nil?
+      object.person.save
+    Rails.logger.debug("From: #{object.person.inspect}") if object.person
       raise "In receive for #{self.real_name}, signature was not valid on: #{object.inspect}" unless object.post.person == self.person || object.verify_post_creator_signature
       object.save
       dispatch_comment object unless owns?(object)
diff --git a/lib/diaspora/parser.rb b/lib/diaspora/parser.rb
index 650c4a4e4..51523724d 100644
--- a/lib/diaspora/parser.rb
+++ b/lib/diaspora/parser.rb
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@ module Diaspora
       Person.first(:id => id)
     end
 
-    def self.get_or_create_person_object_from_xml(xml)
+    def self.parse_or_find_person_from_xml(xml)
       doc = Nokogiri::XML(xml) { |cfg| cfg.noblanks }
-      person_xml = doc.xpath("//request/person").to_s
-      person_id = doc.xpath("//request/person/_id").text.to_s
+      person_xml = doc.xpath("//person").to_s
+      person_id = doc.xpath("//person/_id").text.to_s
       person = Person.first(:_id => person_id)
       person ? person : Person.from_xml( person_xml)
     end
@@ -36,6 +36,5 @@ module Diaspora
         raise e
       end
     end
-
   end
 end
diff --git a/spec/models/user/receive_spec.rb b/spec/models/user/receive_spec.rb
index 2a08ba76a..980789318 100644
--- a/spec/models/user/receive_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/models/user/receive_spec.rb
@@ -40,14 +40,7 @@ describe User do
 
     @user.groups.size.should == num_groups
   end
-  describe 'comments' do
-    it 'should receive comments from unknown users' do
-      friend_users(@user, @group, @user2, @group2)
-      
-      status_message = @user.post, :status_message, :message => 'message', :to => @group.id
 
-    end
-  end
   describe 'post refs' do
     before do
 
diff --git a/spec/spec_helper.rb b/spec/spec_helper.rb
index 548c7867d..3b80d4c50 100644
--- a/spec/spec_helper.rb
+++ b/spec/spec_helper.rb
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ end
 
   def stub_signature_verification
     (get_models.map{|model| model.camelize.constantize} - [User]).each do |model|
-      model.any_instance.stubs(:signature_valid?).returns(true)
+      model.any_instance.stubs(:verify_signature).returns(true)
     end
   end
 
diff --git a/spec/user_encryption_spec.rb b/spec/user_encryption_spec.rb
index 47433b80f..de21c343f 100644
--- a/spec/user_encryption_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/user_encryption_spec.rb
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ describe 'user encryption' do
       remote_user.destroy
       
       person_count = Person.all.count
-      proc {@user.receive xml}.should_not raise_error /Signature was not valid/
+      proc {@user.receive xml}.should_not raise_error /ignature was not valid/
       Person.all.count.should == person_count + 1
       new_person = Person.first(:id => id)
       new_person.export_key.should == original_key
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ describe 'user encryption' do
       xml = message.to_diaspora_xml
       message.destroy
       Post.count.should be 0
-      proc {@user.receive xml}.should raise_error /Signature was not valid/
+      proc {@user.receive xml}.should raise_error /ignature was not valid/
       Post.count.should be 0
     end