On Mon, 04 Mar 2013 21:01:13 +0100 Aniruddha <mailingdotlist@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 04-03-13 20:47, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > >> > >> That can be a solution. Creating a Fedora account though has more > >> requirements than an average forum. With most forums you only > >> register a username, email address and password. If we can do this > >> for ask Fedora with FAS it would make participating easier. > > It also requires a ton of work to police it because many people > > register various sock puppets and spam bots to fill it. > > > > > > > A quick search show that most open source communities only require > minimal input. If they are able to solve this we surely can too. Username Full Name email address and a checkbox that they are over 13. and a captcha. So, really the only difference here is that we require full name. Which mageia and suse also do. I suppose we could look at making full name optional, but I don't see the great burden there personally. kevin
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