On 30 January 2013 12:26, Andy Smith <andy@???> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 12:19:22PM +0000, Chris Dennis wrote:
>> Automatic account creation will not be re-enabled, because we get
>> dozens of spammers/bots logging in and causing havoc. Please contact
>> me at webmaster@??? if you want an account on the wiki
>> and/or the new Wordpress website.
>
> Fair enough if this is the way it has to be, but I would note that
> this is extremely hostile to newcomers, who will likely never
> request an account form a human for a variety of reasons.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
The answer to this would be to allow third party authentication API's
such as Google, Twitter, Facebook, OpenID etc to allow account logins.
Stack Exchange is a great example of this.
Some wordpress plugins already exist to handle this:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/social-connect/
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