Here we see an exemplary case of open registration, accompanied by an open thread.

Reasons you should consider registering a free account at LGF:

• You get your own LGF Page to broadcast your thoughts on the Internet; a mini-blog with embedded images, videos, and polls, and a super-fast intuitive Ajax interface for editing posts. (Post something great and it could end up on the LGF front page.)
• You get the ability to jump into the verbal brawl and post comments.
• You can upload an image as your personal icon.
• You can link your LGF account to your Twitter account, and automatically post updates to Twitter whenever you post an LGF Page.
• You can view the profiles of other users.
• You can rate comments, articles, and Pages.
• You can save LGF articles, Pages, and comments in your personalized “Favorites” area for future reference.
• You can use the LGF Spy for real-time viewing of the activity at LGF, and real-time commenting on news events. (LGF Spy is a live-updating chat room on steroids.)
• The site’s auto-updating features are enabled, to help keep track of things in real time: you’ll see auto-updated new comments as they appear in each thread, and the page view counters, tweet counters, and ratings on posts update in real time.
• You get to see what music is currently echoing through the halls of Lizard Central, thanks to the excellent Now Playing iTunes plug-in (and some custom code of our own).
• And much more that I’m probably forgetting.