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Re:Don’t require a user to be interested twice: lessons on r... by RyJones on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @11:51AM (#23168126)
This is one of the reasons Begg Knives shut down his forums. We literally couldn't delete accounts fast enough.
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Re:Don’t require a user to be interested twice: lessons on r... by ValentineC on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @06:58PM (#23172857)
When I used to manage web forums, I ask a hard question during signup and put the answer within the question itself (e.g. "hint: the answer is xxx").

This usually stops simple spam bots that are aimed at that particular off-the-shelf forum software.

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