Forums > Social Chat > Malcom, Why are you making everyone register now?

Posted: 29th Aug 2005
i had longer hair back then
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Posted: 30th Aug 2005
i don't see the problem with registering... it cut out a lot of crap... people can only be arsed to register if they wanna learn and stuff.

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Posted: 31st Aug 2005
hah, I laugh at this dude.

It's not as if the computer is scanning your ruddy retina everytime you log on..

Posted: 31st Aug 2005

Written by: SNOOPoi

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people can only be arsed to register if they wanna learn and stuff.

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Not strictly true. If you look at the "Who's online" section, you see a lot of anon. users checking out move threads and the free lessons



As for retina scanning, I know lotsa people (my stepdad one of them) who are totaly paranoid about cookies (sorta like an online fingerprint), and forumns tend to run on those...
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Posted: 31st Aug 2005
But at the same time, the forum has to work somehow. I guess the choice was keep using the forum and brave a cookie (gasp) or stop using the forum. For one thing, this is a commercial website, not an online cyber-commune thingummy. Malcom has to keep it nice because it's part of his commercial enterprise. And for another, so far the vast majority support this move. So yeah, however you want to think of it, the people who were "put out" by this move had only their interests at heart, not the interests of this community as a whole. So to them.

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