I'd rather just remove invite codes than allow OpenIDs to contribute more than comments. If the point of invite codes is to control growth and limit spam, then making OpenIDs able to contribute in the same ways as a normal account effectively neuters those benefits of invite codes.
Also, OpenIDs don't have to explicitly agree to the Terms of Service, which is something pretty scary for a site operator to have people who use your site who don't have to agree to your ToS.
The only way I could see this working is to remove invite codes (so we don't place artificial pressure on people to go get an OpenID to get around our restrictions) and make an OpenID account be forced to agree to the ToS before they can do things on the site.
If both of those happened, then people might as well just use a normal account so we can keep OpenIDs as the "you want to participate in comments, but you don't want to actually join the site" sort of "lite" accounts, IMO.
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Date: 2009-11-10 06:09 pm (UTC)Also, OpenIDs don't have to explicitly agree to the Terms of Service, which is something pretty scary for a site operator to have people who use your site who don't have to agree to your ToS.
The only way I could see this working is to remove invite codes (so we don't place artificial pressure on people to go get an OpenID to get around our restrictions) and make an OpenID account be forced to agree to the ToS before they can do things on the site.
If both of those happened, then people might as well just use a normal account so we can keep OpenIDs as the "you want to participate in comments, but you don't want to actually join the site" sort of "lite" accounts, IMO.