Disallow people from registering new accounts on the site (without being invited) or collect enough information to identify spammers or allow registration without application

mlncn commented

2019-10-04 14:53:04 +00:00

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Default settings allow people to apply for a regular account, which would enable them to leave comments without re-filling in their name and e-mail, basically is it.

Because the only information collected when people register are a username and an e-mail address, there's very little information on which to base approving or denying an account application, which makes the doing so a bit of a waste of time.

I think our options are:

Turn off the ability of people to create accounts,
Collect enough information about why people want an account to give a shot at distinguishing spammers, or
Allow registration without approval, and when someone spams, delete their account and all their comments in one step (which is easier than deleting individual anonymous comments)

Default settings allow people to apply for a regular account, which would enable them to leave comments without re-filling in their name and e-mail, basically is it. Because the only information collected when people register are a username and an e-mail address, there's very little information on which to base approving or denying an account application, which makes the doing so a bit of a waste of time. I think our options are: * Turn off the ability of people to create accounts, * Collect enough information about why people want an account to give a shot at distinguishing spammers, or * Allow registration without approval, and when someone spams, delete their account and all their comments in one step (which is easier than deleting individual anonymous comments)

mlncn commented

2019-10-04 15:04:26 +00:00

(Migrated from gitlab.com)

marked this issue as related to drutopia/drutopia#71