You can leave a comment anonymously by logging in as "otoguest", password "otoguest" if you prefer.

By registering, you enable Antville to identify you on your comments. It also prevents others from posting comments with the same nickname, masquerading as you. It's a favorite pastime of "trolls" to stir up flame wars in this fashion, so having a password protected identity system helps to preserve the civility of the discourse around here.

Antville also uses your login to provide a link to your website (if you have specified one) from your comments. Your wise words in this forum can serve as self-promotion for your own corner of the web. I know I, for one, will often click through to learn more about the person behind a particular comment.

Finally, once you've registered for one Antville site, you're registered for all of them. This enables some nifty features like the "subscriptions" option, which you can use to keep track of your favorite sites at antville.org and see which has been most recently updated.

If you find the login an annoyance, you can always ask Antville to cache your login information in a cookie, so you don't have to log in on subsequent visits to the domain.

You need not provide an e-mail address, but for the record it is my policy to make no use of it if you do provide one, other than to contact you in the event that the site is unexpectedly relocated and the old site is not available to redirect my loyal readers. In other words, probably never.