I wish people could articulate valid points without writing like 14 year olds.

I, on the other hand, wish that the OpenID team had consulted some 14-year-olds earlier in the design cycle.

I'll own up to it :)

It was a 5 minute rant to be honest, not a well thought out exposition on OpenID's various shortcomings.

So, apologies if it was inarticulate/verbose. I really should clean it up and edit before I submit to YC.

I modded you up BTW :D

oh haha i had no idea you actually wrote it. i mean, you make really valid points, there's a reason nobody likes openid.

Haha, no worries dude. Your criticism was spot on and appreciated.

I don't usually submit my own writings to YC (first time I believe).

I agree, but I liked flow|state's concrete critiques by example better: http://miksovsky.blogs.com/flowstate/2007/08/openid-great-id...