Log in to contribute! NO!
I’m sick to fucking death of sites that want me to register. Look, your site, your right, hands down.
But really. Does every sodding blog and news site I visit really need to track me that tightly?
I suppose if you’re the site owner, admin you can ban people if they’re problematic. But use some global ID thingie. (I’m sure there are three dozen WikiCapNamed services out there that serve this purpose.) Sure, a popular one of those I’ll add myself to.
Every once in a while I can understand it. Some people get real and meaningful threats. Sure. Lock it down.
But I’m just not going to register to your podunk newspaper website, and I suspect you’re doing yourself a disservice
Meh. Just bitching.
February 18th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
I absolutely agree, especially when it comes to news sites. Why would I share my info (which might very well get stolen if/when the site gets hacked) just to get access to news I can find anonymously elsewhere?