Thread:Jens Ingels/@comment-5694283-20130610074818/@comment-9946604-20130610233742

"I agree that the forum is valuable and that IP users need to be able to comment. How complicated would it be to add an additonal field of 'guest name' along with 'subject' and 'body' for IP users? "

Both you and Prajay say IP users need a voice and blocking them would be bad for the wiki-- I agree.

On other sites, you see several fields,

[guest name]

[subject]*

[email-- we don't give this out]*

[body]*

This way, when an IP user makes a post without registering, they still have a name. Most allow you to leave this blank and you show up as anonymous. Fields marked with a star are required and it won't let you post if they are blank.

--Another idea is that we could let people log in with facebook or google, but this is probably difficult and could cause lots of vandalism both here and on facebook.