On 04-03-13 20:47, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
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> That can be a solution. Creating a Fedora account though has more
> requirements than an average forum. With most forums you only register a
> username, email address and password. If we can do this for ask Fedora with
> FAS it would make participating easier.
It also requires a ton of work to police it because many people
register various sock puppets and spam bots to fill it.
A quick search show that most open source communities only require
minimal input. If they are able to solve this we surely can too.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/register.php
http://ubuntuforums.org/register.php
http://forums.gentoo.org/profile.php?mode=register
http://askubuntu.com/users/login?#create-account
http://forums.debian.net/ucp.php?mode=register
http://forums.linuxmint.com/ucp.php?mode=register
https://identity.mageia.org/register
Opensuse's registration form is the only one I have found that asks more
question's than Fedora's FAS:
https://www.suse.com/selfreg/jsp/createAccount.jsp