I can relate to your complaint. I joined advogato for the same reason, except I wanted to comment on the FreeDCE article from a while back.

I appreciate that advogato is not your average blog site, and because of that, it is remarkably spam-lite. Still, it is frustrating when becoming a full fledged member requires bugging other people to certify you.

I suppose I should get back to hacking now too. :-)