Thread:CzechOut/@comment-142.22.16.52-20130219193643/@comment-188432-20130219211731

In response to your query elsewhere, it may not be required that you have an account. But there are benefits to doing so. One of the greatest benefits is that we can talk to you on your user talk page, and we'll know that you got the message. Because of a bug that is not yet fixed, we cannot be assured that you will receive a message alert when we post to an IP user's talk page. Even if that bug were squashed, we'd have no assurance that an IP user would actually use the same IP address on each session. Many IP user have no idea what their IP is, and therefore wouldn't think to go to a talk page associated with that number.

Registering an account means that we have a reliable way to send you messages, and thereby lowers the chance that you'll be blocked.

There are several other advantages to registering an account, as well — including the ability to play our fun little editing game, the Game of Rassilon!