On 7/24/2012 4:52 PM, Sven Burmeister wrote:
Am Dienstag, 24. Juli 2012, 15:25:50 schrieb Brian K. White:
And it's not up to you to judge whether this desire is reasonable or not. Do you want the bug reports or not? You may feel the requirement is as minor as you like, but you still lose out more than he does.
I can't count the times I was googling for something, came across some random web forum conversation on the topic, saw someone ask a question that I know the answer to and no one else seemed to, but since I couldn't answer right there on the spot without having to register, the asker, and everyone else who might google the same topic, went without any answer.
Better that way than having any site spammed. I'm afraid you just skipped the flip side of the coin to make your argument shine. Don't try to hard!
Don't try too hard yourself. Somehow other sites allow on-the-spot posting either anonymously, or with an on-the-spot email field to fill in that isn't registering and doesn't send or require you to wait for or respond to any confirmation email before posting. The spammers are reasonably inhibited yet the casual poster still gets to post. There are also of course several other options that leverage a registration many users may have already had, like google or facebook. You still have to register for those, and it doesn't address the issue of privacy if that was the users concern, but it does save the user from having to register at every single random site they come across, which is my only concern in this topic. -- bkw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org