This is a great question and on that I asked myself last week. I am seeing a growing number of people register on my site and with that a larger number of reje

This is a great question and on that I asked myself last week. I am seeing a growing number of people register on my site and with that a larger number of rejected emails because they entered the email wrong. (Note: who ever owns gmial.com probably sees a ton of email sent their way). This made me rethink how people get registered. I think it is probably time to change gears and validate the email and not the password. Sure doing both would be better but I dislike having to double enter everything on a form. Here is my rational for making the switch. I want users to become engaged. The fact that they are registering means I did something right that motivated them to act. I require, like many others, to validate their email and account by clicking on a link that gets emailed to them. If they never get the link they never get fully registered. I am sure a large number of users would not follow up on this. They were motivated at the time to register but that motivation might not be strong enough to persuade them to troubleshoot their registration. This results in turning a motivated user into a disgruntled surfer. Plus if the password was wrong they can always reset it with their validated and confirmed email