Ask Fedora enhancements and fixes

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Mon, 04 Mar 2013 21:01:13 +0100
Aniruddha <mailingdotlist at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 04-03-13 20:47, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> >>
> >> 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.

Username
Full Name
email address

and a checkbox that they are over 13. 

and a captcha.

So, really the only difference here is that we require full name. 
Which mageia and suse also do. 

I suppose we could look at making full name optional, but I don't see
the great burden there personally. 

kevin
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