2008/8/20 Daniel Schwen lists@schwen.de:
The key mistake is reducing the new upload form to one single adjective: "obtrusive" (that makes my stomach cramp up). The new upload form was not invented to torture people, it was invented to guide newbies (who will certainly not know how to opt-in anywhere!) through the upload process and make them provide the necessary information that had been omitted so often in a structured way (which burdened commons with lots of cleanup and avoidable deletions).
Indeed. Supplying anecdotal evidence here, I have a friend who found the old form - where you fill in the information template yourself - BLOODY IMPOSSIBLE, and the new form quite easy. n00bs like it; the experienced may have more problems without "do it my way" options.
- d.