Per my earlier thoughts about the possibility of private posts, I have decided to enable user registration. If I have never met you in person nor conversed with you past midnight, do not bother registering, unless you are really famous or something.
There are perhaps 50 people or so whom I would accept user registration from without a second thought, excluding famous people.[1] I assume more than 40 of them either do not know of the existence of this site and/or do not suspect that they are in this 50. If 8 or so people register, that is about 6 people too many to know deep secrets, but about the right number for a good conspiracy.
[1] Although I would probably still question famous people. Even if Cory Doctorow signed up with an email address from craphound.com, I would still not believe it was him rather than some sadistic prankster. There are a lot of sickos out there, you see.
# At 9:31 on September 21, 2005, Cory Doctorow wrote:
However, I do read the Technorati RSS for links to craphound.com and follow up the ones that look interesting.
Cory
# At 22:08 on September 25, 2005, Blake Johnson wrote:
Ok, Martey... so I just switched to Wordpress on my own blog last week and I'm not quite clear what user registration would allow you to do. Is this for semi-private posts or are you trying to allow other people to post entries? Please explain.
# At 1:08 on September 26, 2005, Martey wrote:
It is for semi-private posts. The only cases I can think of where I would allow other people to post would be as an April Fool's joke, if I were dead (one notification post only), or if I got married (a few posts every once in a while from my wife/wives would provide an adequate diversion without diluting the essence of Martey that infuses this site with Martey-goodness).