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Re:Don’t require a user to be interested twice: lessons on r... by AQuantized on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @12:09PM (#23168351)
Why not stop allowing registration except by manual whitelist? At least until the spammer lost interest.
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Re:Don’t require a user to be interested twice: lessons on r... by detaro on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @12:26PM (#23168559)
Is that less friction than captchas?
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Re:Don’t require a user to be interested twice: lessons on r... by duxup on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @12:33PM (#23168630)
How would that work?

Manually approve someone who registers ... then discover they're a spam bot?

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