I support having better systems for catching fake accounts and sock puppets, but I am concerned about the potential for new systems/profiles/countermeasures to make online life very difficult for innocent users. We've seen this happen with captchas; the zeal to stop bots has made registering for certain sites or leaving comments nearly impossible for a lot of people. Michael Arrington had this problem recently on Tigers.com (1).
As for the criteria named in the featured article, I work late every night, and I use Yahoo Mail for almost all "casual" account signups to catch spam, unwanted newsletters, and other notifications that I would rather not deal with in my other email inboxes. I would hate to see these be used as an excuse to target me for more intrusive registration steps or deny me access to various sites or services.
As for the criteria named in the featured article, I work late every night, and I use Yahoo Mail for almost all "casual" account signups to catch spam, unwanted newsletters, and other notifications that I would rather not deal with in my other email inboxes. I would hate to see these be used as an excuse to target me for more intrusive registration steps or deny me access to various sites or services.
1) http://twitter.com/arrington/status/236893640365068288