At 04:08 PM 12/25/2004 +0800, John Lee wrote:
Having spent five or six years interacting with people
on the internet,
I've found that it's the troublemakers who will go to great lengths to
irritate people while the more useful people don't have the time to register.
I know that I, myself, have passed up contributing to wikis because they
required me to log in - not even email-confirmed, just a username and
password. I was just passing through and didn't want to bother jumping
through any hoops. We get plenty of anonymous edits on Wikipedia and very
few of them are vandals, so I'd be wary of anything that cuts those off.