Looks fine by me. I would register.

I hope Alice and Carol can work that out.

I'm down with registration, especially if TypeKey is going to be an option.

It took three attempts to register with typekey at jihadwatch, only to be blocked from comments. Big waste of time....

I am not saying comment registration is a bad thing, only that type-key has as many bugs and flaws in it as every other six-apart product does.

I too have registered, yet cant post anywhere with it.

Also, you will be adding another entity to your 3 person list of "who has the power to ban" here. If someone goes and blisters the "Muslims for Micheal Moore Blog", and the owners of "that" blog report them to Type-key, and some low level tech at Six-Apart deems them as having broken THEIR use agreement, then that person would not be able to blog elsewhere. Even one his own blog, if he used type-key.

You will be putting editorial control out of your hands. People may be banned from posting here and you will never even know it.

Have you considered going to a more common type of BBS software?

..this bothers me abit;as one who has been banned from posting at a high profile ((RAG)) for reasons I still dont know; sooo;problem is if you get banned from one will this ban you at another..

Rob, TypeKey doesn't cross-ban. If we ban you from CP for being disresepctful or less than civil (hypothetical, of course), it would ONLY apply to posting on CP, not on other blogs.

Alan, I know that if you ban me here, type-key will still allow me to post on other website that use it, because you did not forward your complaint to six-apart.

But am I wrong when I say, "If six-apart themselves ban you profile for violating their EULA, that you want be able to post at ANY website that uses type-key comment registration.

Its kind of like a union pulling your card. Even if your employer is happy with your work, you wont be able to work their until you can get right with the union.

I believe you will only have second tier ability to ban. You will only be able to ban the ones you know about, you will never know if a reader cant post on your site, due to Type-Key canceling their registration, for another offensive elsewhere.

I might be wrong about that, but I have heard critics of Type-Key mention it elsewhere in the blogosphere.

From the Type-Key extended FAQ you posted above.

No. A user can be banned by violating the Type-Key Terms of Service: for example, by abusing the service by tampering with the system or posting bulk comments or spam. Remember, Type-Key only authenticates users, it does not pass the content of a comment to a weblog, so Six Apart will not police content.

This is what I am talking about. Not that I plan on violating their EULA, but a glitch in THEIR buggy system, or an unjustified complaint to them, would allow them to deny a reader from commenting here, and you would never know they even tried to.

Interesting ... I may contact them about that ...

hpothetically, of course.