"Stan" <stas...@orc.ru> schrieb am Fri, 14 Dec 2012 11:51:57 +0300:
> First, I don't think it's convenient for users to register themselves > on many sites, which they visit occasionally. If most of the users do > this right now, it does not mean they are happy with this, this is > bacause there is no other, more simple way (as simple as just > clicking on "remember me"). There is an even simpler way: Not doing registration at all when you do not absolutely, positively need identity. In my experience, that works quite well on blogs and imageboards. [Full disclosure: I have a blog and am a moderator on an imageboard I shall not name.] > Second, user accounts are based on e-mails as a rule, which is not > unique at all, every user can have multiple e-mails and multiple > registrations. Many web-services struggle against users' reputation > spoofing made via such fake accounts. I do not understand what is “fake” about such accounts. > Third, I think it's up to a certain web-service design and > requirements, if it needs to identify user accounts or user devices. > For example, usage of the same profile on multiple devices can be a > violation of a web-service license agreement, or a web-service may > bind several devices to the same profile. I prefer working towards a world where such licensing schemes do not exist. Artificial scarcity introduced by licensing restrictions governing the use of software burdens many so few can profit. -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>
