Should public Web services be OpenID providers only?

this is a slightly paraphrased question initially posed on the “Web & Web Usability” weblog by Diego Ferreyra:
Imagine every service (any service) provider did that. Blogger, MySpace, Digg, and so on. You would still have 3000 OpenID accounts because none of them would allow you to sign in with the OpenID provider of your choice.
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WordPress.com is not about to support OpenID Consumer

unfortunately, my misgivings about low chances of OpenID Consumer (Relying Party) support on WP.COM I have expressed in my previous post (which I wrote before an official announcement has been published) are becoming true.
sadly enough, but the following comment of Matt just confirmed my speculation:
What problems we’re having do you think accepting OpenIDs would solve?
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WordPress.com jumps on an OpenID bandwagon

today WordPress.com has become another OpenID Identity Provider, still isn’t an OpenID Consumer enabled service [yet?]
finally*, after Bill Gates has taken notice of, AOL has added support for (Server), Digg has announced they will support it, enhancement ticket on WP.org Trac, several topics in Ideas and number of in Support » Requests and Feedback section [...]

forum ban as a CRM method

this post initially was supposed to be a reply to the Ideas forum thread on “Include quota status on Dashboard“, but since I was banned from the forum (see some details in the previous post) I have to post it here:

wow, what a nice CRM paradigm shift just for the one year from:
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"Global Tags" don’t seem to be going anywhere new

or to be exact they are going to hell…
wank (that girl again ;-) mentions my suicidal resurrection of the Category vs. Global Tags thread in wp.com forums:
Whereupon everyone piles in again and I finally twig that post category links are not broken through accident or carelessness, but by design. It’s such a lovely piece of [...]