I really hate any commenting system that requires me to register. I don't want to have dozens of accounts just because of all these various systems for commenting.
No, it's an argument for not requiring an acount when it's not necessary. E.g. for simple comments.
I came up with the following: email is optional, and used for notification as well as editing/deleting the comment. Assuming the email is used for only that, I think that's as convenient and fair as it can get.
Sounds like you didn't even bother reading my comment. I am well aware Disqus can allow anonymous commenting as an option. But that doesn't clearly address what I stated.