Huh? I never said I wanted to bypass it. On the contrary I feel like earning the movie. It has a much better feel to it. =]
If you run a site with lame moderators there will be noobs walking around spamming, yes. But if you have decent moderators and rules, you sort of feel up there you know. I also think that's sort of the point - to flush out all the rather unloyal people. I mean if a site offered you everything and never demanded anything from you once in a while you'd be kinda jaded.
I guess some of this has to do a lot with opinion. So for each his own.