Why aren't anonymous edits permitted?

From: Chris C.
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Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2010 10:57 PM
Subject: wiki doesn't allow anonymous editing

Question

I am *not* going to create Yet Another Account on Yet Another Website with Yet Another Password just to leaving a freaking feature suggestion. Either allow anonymous editing or put an e-mail address on the suggested features page.

When you require account creation for feedback, you discourage around 80% of the people who would otherwise leave feedback. If you're OK with discouraging those people, then fine. Otherwise, don't require registration.

Answer

Anonymous edits were disallowed for reasons related to combating spam.

You can always submit feature request(s) by writing to help (at) supermemo (dot) com

At the same time, we are aware of the predicament and actively work to alleviate it. The note about e-mail address has just been added to a relevant page. Independently, we are working on enabling Facebook Connect across SuperMemo Wikis that would enable users to log in with their Facebook accounts

Comment

Chris, registering to leave feedback is a normal procedure used by most companies out there (the only difference is that most companies use ordinary forums while SuperMemo uses the Wiki). Look around, there are numerous feedback forums related to various pieces of software out there. I don't know a single forum where you could leave feedback without registering.

marjur

Comment 2

In the past, SuperMemopedia was suspended twice due to spam abuse. There were 5x more edits by spammers than by actual users. Registration is a necessary evil. We still get more feedback than can possibly process. Your unhappiness with inconvenience is understandable, we all hate multiple registrations at all sites and all those passwords. SuperMemoHelp 20:49, 6 October 2010 (UTC)