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Comment author: wedrifid 30 December 2010 12:31:38PM *  0 points [-]

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)

Comment author: taryneast 30 December 2010 12:33:55PM 0 points [-]

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 ;)

Comment author: wedrifid 30 December 2010 12:47:25PM 0 points [-]

Maybe so, but the reason would have been similar...

You didn't need an account. You didn't need to verify anything. arglebargle@floodlebock.com would have worked.

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