title: Why is it important to do email verification upon sign up and is it "mandatory"?
body: <p>More than a handful of websites don't require registrants to verify their email and they seem to work fine without obliging you to go through this (minor) ordeal.</p>
  
  <p>It seems logical this mechanism would assure email validity and would deter a robot non grata, but is it pertinent for a low user functionality website, for example, only for writing comments or anything relatively harmless like that, to enforce it?</p>