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It's a fools errand to try to prevent people from creating anonymous accounts using something like a throw-away email address. It's just far to easy to do.
by jnorthrop 17y ago
It's a fools errand to try to prevent people from creating anonymous accounts using something like a throw-away email address. It's just far to easy to do.
- TrevorJ 17y agoI think they just want to make it as hard as possible to prevent as much bot script account creation as they can.
- jnorthrop 17y agoThat's a good point, but it doesn't explain why they prevent you from typing "mallinator.com" into a post. To me that's taking it a bit too far -- bots don't read other posts.
- gaius 17y agoProbably because they have the one filtering engine across their entire estate.
- pageman 17y agobut you can type http://66.135.60.177/ http://66.135.60.177/
- twopoint718 17y agoor http://dodgit.com/ http://dodgit.com/
- dryicerx 17y agoOnly costs a few bucks to register a own domain and have a unlimited supply of throw away email addresses. There is no prevention at all... it's not even making it hard.