To reduce the number of fake accounts (and therefore trolling and spam).
Accounts were not even required on OvercomingBias. From original post:
But for purposes of overcoming bias, let us draw two morals:
This is one of the threads that were imported to lesswrong. (Perhaps we do not need to respond to trollish questions that were posted over 2 years ago. :P)
Maybe so, but the reason would have been similar… and 2008 isn’t so olde-dayes ago that accounts were unheard of on blogs. It’s only 2 years. My blog required accounts-for-posting back then ;)
Accounts were not even required on OvercomingBias. From original post:
This is one of the threads that were imported to lesswrong. (Perhaps we do not need to respond to trollish questions that were posted over 2 years ago. :P)
Maybe so, but the reason would have been similar… and 2008 isn’t so olde-dayes ago that accounts were unheard of on blogs. It’s only 2 years. My blog required accounts-for-posting back then ;)
You didn’t need an account. You didn’t need to verify anything. arglebargle@floodlebock.com would have worked.