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Topic: Account registration is open again

Account registration is open again after several years of being closed off due to spammers and Russian bots.

For now, this is only a temporary thing.

Even if you do not plan on posting anything now, you may still want to make an account before registration is closed off again.

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Re: Account registration is open again

Spammers are already coming in regular intervals, they will be deleted and banned on sight. Please do not click on any suspicious links.

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Re: Account registration is open again

Scorched about five of them.  Will periodically continue doing so.

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Re: Account registration is open again

Thank you!

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Re: Account registration is open again

Some days are more quiet than others, but today alone I had to zap 10 of them.

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Re: Account registration is open again

More garbage in, more garbage out.

may need to make membership a request approval setup.  The bots create new false domains almost as fast as we spike them.  or we need a way to nuke certain domain Identifiers like:

.site
.fun
.dumbshitspammer

or create a filter than only accepts

.com
.org
etc.

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Re: Account registration is open again

Unfortunately the forum's tools are too ancient to do  anything like that. I also don't actually own/pay for the forum. If I did, I would have tried implementing some extensions myself.

Nikita would have that information, if you wanted to try reaching out to them.