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What’s the harm? Depending on your functionality there is hardly any downside to allowing multiple ghost accounts.
by DenisM 6y ago
What’s the harm? Depending on your functionality there is hardly any downside to allowing multiple ghost accounts.
- hef19898 6y agoTrue that! Had a discussion along that line just earlier today about the contact us function on my website. Worst case, I get some more mails in my spam folder. I can live with that, checking it every two weeks or so doesn't hurt.
- jbay808 6y agoI used to run a forum for an indie videogame with a small but passionate userbase. Unfortunately it was completely overrun by spambots to the point that moderators couldn't keep up and they drowned out the real posts. We had to shut it down.
- RyJones 6y agoThis is one of the reasons Begg Knives shut down his forums. We literally couldn't delete accounts fast enough.
- ValentineC 6y agoWhen 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.
- AQuantized 6y agoWhy not stop allowing registration except by manual whitelist? At least until the spammer lost interest.
- the_af 6y agoAnything with a chat/comments section will be overrun with spam-bots and be rendered unusable and unwelcoming. The difference between a bot-ridden comments section in a blog and a clean one is huge.
- jabroni_salad 6y agoThere are lists of companies with workflows like this that get used in spam campaigns. You can put any email address in and now they will get a signup notice and multiple 'hey you didnt complete our workflow!' marketing messages. Easy way to put a lot of useless messages that mostly pass spam checks in any mailbox you desire. I recently had an incident with Chime Bank like this, where someone enrolled every public email address at my company with them. I sent them an abuse report and they told us to block their domains. Real great solution, guys.