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Would charging for signup, even $1.00, eliminate essentially all of the abuse?
by leephillips 6y ago
Would charging for signup, even $1.00, eliminate essentially all of the abuse?
- bilbo0s 6y agoThat would depend on the lifetime revenue per user gained spamming your system. There definitely is some sufficiently high signup fee, but it’s different for every spammer. (And for the child pornographers, there may be no fee you could charge to stop them.)
- 0xffff2 6y agoAlong with 99.9% of your legitimate users in most cases.
- jacquesm 6y agoIt is a very coarse filter. Your ratio will go up but there will be plenty of people who feel that since they paid you they now really get to do as they please.
- unnouinceput 6y agoToS / EULA specifying cancel of account and NO REFUND. Usually that keeps them at bay.
- btilly 6y agoYour EULA doesn't help when the credit card reverses the charges. And when you can't prove that it was the real person who paid for it, you're going to lose that one.
- tomjen3 6y agoI believe it works for Metafilter, but you also run into problems with Credit Card abuse, fraudsters who create accounts and test which cards are not yet reported as having failed etc. It is a nightmare.
- nradov 6y agoThe bad actors use stolen credit card numbers so then you have to deal with chargebacks and fraud issues.