Password or no password?

To respect your privacy, we have password protected these pages with a log-in, so that they are visible only to you and other participants. Was this a good idea, or a useless complication?
Please let us know. (You can give your name but you need not.)

Nice gesture. Please keep the log-in.
Fine either way.
Useless complication. Please remove the log-in.

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if you like, your name: