[Sigia-l] The power of anonymity on forums

[Andrew Boyd]

Listera wrote:

>So (when not legally mandated) what's your argument for insisting on
>registration with username+email+password?
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The argument used (and I believe it is a poor one) is monetization.

I am not against exploiting focussed communities for material gain (I do 
it myself), but I am against the over-simplification of the "we have to 
have their email addresses at all costs!".

If you are going to run an email marketing campaign, and the community 
members are going to be genuinely interested, let them opt-in to that 
campaign, not hit everyone on the board. Targetted campaigns pay the 
bills (unless you are in traditional advertising or any other area where 
CTR is King).

Cheers, Andrew

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