The biggest hurdle in the whole "interactive" aspect of the [now aging] Web 2.0 idea is having sooo many various accounts with every website. As someone who prudently uses a different password for every site that I am a member of - it's becoming tiresome, to say the least, to keep up with all of them.
Many "help" and forum sites (including blogs) suffer from this problem. See also the watch problem in an earlier post. I'm not going to create yet another account with some unknown site just to post there. There's got to be a better way. Allow anonymous postings. There has to be a good balance between that, and getting too much spam. Using a captcha helps... Or, make anonymous posting moderated by default, and known users post immediately.
Without a better solution for this, Web 2.0, and the active participation by individuals at large, will be handicapped.
Best,
-J
P.S. You can post to this site anonymously, without having to sign-up for an "account". ;)
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