Jesus H. the lengths people go through not to register a throwaway astounds me.
"How to get into a library without having to fill out a registration form" where the library doesn't care what you write in it, including Dicky McDick.
Honestly. Just register under some kind of pseudo. The sense of entitlement here... why do you think people write great answers there?
You're taking for granted the resource - which wouldn't exist if Quora didn't create and encourage a platform - and want to not give back to an uttely inane extent: even the idea of registering a pseudonym is abhorrent to you.
> why do you think people write great answers there?
Well, I certainly don't think it has anything to do with the fact that they require registration. People write great content on 4chan.
> Jesus H. the lengths people go through not to register a throwaway astounds me.
Have you ever actually been to Quora? The registration modal doesn't even give you the offer to register with a pseudonym that you so casually throw out. You get smacked in the face when you go to the site with a demand to link to your (real-name required) Google or Facebook accounts before you can so much as read 'their' precious content. To sign up with just an email address (that you then have to verify, which automatically opts you in to literally over 30 different 'newsletters' and notifications and other bits of spam that you have to manually opt out of individually). It certainly isn't just "type something into this form to shut up" as you suggest.
Dunno, I used some Mailinator-type email, signed up with some Quora-mocking name, and it seems to work. I still think it's annoying, and I'm not sure how Quora's a "business", but whatever.
"How to get into a library without having to fill out a registration form" where the library doesn't care what you write in it, including Dicky McDick.
Honestly. Just register under some kind of pseudo. The sense of entitlement here... why do you think people write great answers there?
You're taking for granted the resource - which wouldn't exist if Quora didn't create and encourage a platform - and want to not give back to an uttely inane extent: even the idea of registering a pseudonym is abhorrent to you.