On the other hand, that would require more code, and he's made plain on many occasions that he does the absolute bare minimum of development to keep ad revenue climbing - and that he's untroubled at not bothering to fix things if it isn't actively driving off users.
Plus my gut feeling says that "here's your username and password" boosts re-logins more than a token link - there's a certain "it remembers me!" to that for non-technical users, I suspect.
Spend 5 minutes on PoF, then 5 minutes on OKC. Now tell me that PoF's user experience isn't actively repellant.
One of the strangest success stories I've ever come across, that site. Ugly design, badly thought through functionality, limited user experience and basic security mistakes too! The unhappy side of the network effect :-(
Plus my gut feeling says that "here's your username and password" boosts re-logins more than a token link - there's a certain "it remembers me!" to that for non-technical users, I suspect.