The Eyeopener is Ryerson University’s student newspaper. Like other university newspapers (not McMaster though) it is updated online and allows comments to be left if you have an account. To create an account though you must provide:
- Username [OK]
- Password [OK]
- First & Last name [WHAT?]
- E-mail [OK]
- Birthday [WTF?]
- Postal/Zip Code [WTF? x 2]
- Province/State [WTF? x 3]
- Country [WTF? x 4]
Also to accept some terms an conditions. I understand some of the fields required but whiskey tango foxtrot guys, why do you need my postal code? Brock’s paper doesn’t.
Screen cap of The Eyeopener’s account creation fields after the jump.
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[...] Eyeopener (which needs your soul to let you sign up and post comments online) pokes fun at the recent PR debacle Ryerson University [...]
We’re currently in the process of fixing that. We find it a little exhaustive too. Hopefully it didn’t scare you away.
It didn’t scare me away. It was just a bit strange. Glad to hear you’re looking into it.