TDPL a bad idea?

[Walter Bright]

Yigal Chripun wrote:
> IMO, we should have a registration system for regular people, not for 
> censoring purposes but for keeping track.
> there are many posts by different people that call themselves with the 
> same name and it seems confusing and unproductive to me. people don't 
> have to register with their real names if they don't want to but at 
> least I could tell the difference between john and john1 when I'm 
> answering to john.
> Also, regular folks can ensure by registering that no-one else can reply 
> to posts in their names.


I've thought about building such a system for these forums many times. 
Registration would not be required to post, but registering would enable 
features like voting on posts, establishing a profile, preferences, etc.