Feedback: not so smart

Hi there,
I found something on the forum that was fretful for me: Guests don't have the possibility to post - not even here in the "feedback about Discussions" section.
Imagine now a guy (e.g. me) has problems to login into the apple discussions. Who could he contact? There is no link to webmasters on the discussions site, and the apple support doesn't offer a department where one could adress this issue.
So my feedback: Allow guests to post at least in this feedback section of the forum here, or alternatively, offer a link for contacting the webmasters.
In the end it turned out that the problem was, that I changed the data in my profile, namely i changed a "ss" to an "ß" in my name at the adress (not the ID!).
And this board doesn't seem to like this - what is a shame, because in the year 2011 one would thing that people from non english speaking countries should have the right to type their names the right way. And it cannot be such a high computer technical thing to allow that, since it works with mobile me and iTunes store also with the "ß".
Please fix this - you just have to browse the posts here in this section, and see that again and again people are having this kind of problem. Please start to react on it and fix it!
Best regards
Gernot

In fact i did send a msg via the feedback form on the first link you gave me. But I didn't get an answer.
And it is very unlikely you ever will. I suspect Apple would have to hire somebody to do nothing but respond to emails from that link. J.K. ROFLing outlines how the system works here in terms of suggestions being implemented - or not.
if some1 has problems logging in into the forum, there should be a clear and easy way to contact the right persons - and that is simply not the case.
The bottom of every web page has a "Contact Us" link. It takes you to a page with a panel on the right with various web feedback links which get you the feedback form.

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