Starting tonight, you will need a user account to leave a comment on the site. Yes, the days of 'anonymous' comments are over. If you don't have one already, sign up for your Capitolhillseattle.com user account here (btw, you might need to check your junk mail for the confirmation e-mail -- gmail, in particular, hasn't been friendly to our sign-up process). 170 of you already have. Thanks for being part of the neighborhood.

So, why the change? For the first few months, we didn't require registration to leave a comment on this site because that's the way Central District News has been running their site. To post a story or a picture, you need a user account but to weigh in on the topics at hand, all you need to do is enter a name and e-mail address and, ta-dah, you can add your $0.02 to the conversation.

There are benefits to this arrangement. For one, the site gets more comments because it's easy for anybody to contribute. And we do have a lot of quality additions to the site's information from people who haven'...