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Re:LLM Sandboxing: Lessons Learned by eriner_ on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @11:55AM (#35247997)
Ah, that's what you're referring to. As I mentioned in a comment on the previous thread (which I now see you commented on two days ago), we didn't want to require phone numbers for verification and went the email-only route instead. Unfortunately there was a not-insignificant amount of abuse from temporary email addresses. Because they are temporary and throwaway accounts and we have no way of reliably contacting the humans behind those accounts, our best option was to prevent players from using accounts with those throwaway domains.

As you stated in your other comment, it sounds like you got your money's worth. Accounts can still be registered with non-throwaway emails.

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Re:LLM Sandboxing: Lessons Learned by O__________O on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @12:14PM (#35248287)
Simply having a notification on login that the account was locked, why, and means of unlocking it — unless there was proof of abuse - to me would have been the appropriate response. Not to mention you unilaterally edited username I had to remove spaces, which wasn’t blocked when I created username.

Basically, you’re not acknowledging both your error messages/notifications have repeatedly been problematic— or that banning users who used the system as designed is wrong.

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