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trust people to do the right thing, but verify that they are not doing anything malicious Good point. Metafilter does this, actually. When you sign up you pa
by resdirector 16y ago
trust people to do the right thing, but verify that they are not doing anything malicious
Good point.
Metafilter does this, actually. When you sign up you pay a once off fee of $5 (the meta-filter). If you do something especially bad, they shut your account down and don't return the $5 (AFAIK).
- skorgu 16y agoAnecdotally mathowie usually ends up returning the $5 to keep paypal happy. As disappointing as it is to not screw the spammers it seems to be a pragmatic decision to keep valid registrations flowing cleanly.
- skorgu 16y agoCortex corrected[1] me, it's an occasional occurrence but not 'usually'. [1] http://metatalk.metafilter.com/19828/I-give-you-the-ability-to-do-this-because-I-trust-you#817368 http://metatalk.metafilter.com/19828/I-give-you-the-ability-...