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by simplify 4727 days ago
With regard to the pain of creating yet another account, I really do believe Mozilla Persona is perfect for websites like this one. All they need is your email address, and Persona protects your privacy by only providing this information.

I honestly can't wait to see a future where almost all non-social websites use Persona as their login system. We'll be able to create accounts with only a single click.

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I dont understand why they need my email address or "Persona"?

Wouldnt a captcha be good enough, prevent spam and user can choose to provide a nickname/handle. Just click and go.

What are you guarding by requiring a password/credential of the user? Is it really that important who wrote what for this kind of service? If its seriously important, such as to stop spam, use the IP or cookie to identify a user and keep spammers/saboteurs out, it would catch 99.9% of them while letting us normal users click and play around.