"there is just one no, no in the Salon, that is posting by using the post a comment button."
Yeah Twank, what are you doing, posting a comment by using the "Post a Comment Button". What a doofus. In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.
You can think of it as a regulatory scheme in which each person is asked to sacrifice a wee bit of freedom for a collective benefit that far outweighs the sum total of individual freedoms so sacrificed. Cynicism is intellectual treason.