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I seriously doubt that MagmaWiki gets 100 '''legitimate''' new accounts registered in a month. There are not very many actual wiki contributors. Right now, looking at the [[Recent changes]] page, I see '''hundreds''' of new accounts registered '''per day'''! That's a new account every few minutes. I'm sure about 99.9% are either Spambots or people wanting to spread Spam. It's '''already''' a hassle and nuisance, I'm sure. And it sucks up bandwidth. I've participated on forums where registration involves sending an email to an administrator or moderator with the requirement that the request ''include a short message'' with the reason '''why''' they want to join. From what I've heard, this stops Spam and Spambots cold. Don't worry: You will '''not''' get hundreds of hand-written email requests to register because that's too much of a hassle for spammers. Apparently, they just leave in favor of finding easier targets. MoogleDan's suggest is valid. It is a proven technique. So why not try something like this? You can always revert back to the old system if it's unsatisfactory. If nothing else, changing things will force the spammers to change their tactics. And if it takes a week or two for a moderator to get around to approving a registration, so what? Explain this to people with a warning that approval may take some time and they'll understand. If not, I suspect they probably would not have contributed anything. --[[User:Thundercraft|Thundercraft]] ([[User talk:Thundercraft|talk]]) 10:14, 11 December 2013 (UTC) | I seriously doubt that MagmaWiki gets 100 '''legitimate''' new accounts registered in a month. There are not very many actual wiki contributors. Right now, looking at the [[Recent changes]] page, I see '''hundreds''' of new accounts registered '''per day'''! That's a new account every few minutes. I'm sure about 99.9% are either Spambots or people wanting to spread Spam. It's '''already''' a hassle and nuisance, I'm sure. And it sucks up bandwidth. I've participated on forums where registration involves sending an email to an administrator or moderator with the requirement that the request ''include a short message'' with the reason '''why''' they want to join. From what I've heard, this stops Spam and Spambots cold. Don't worry: You will '''not''' get hundreds of hand-written email requests to register because that's too much of a hassle for spammers. Apparently, they just leave in favor of finding easier targets. MoogleDan's suggest is valid. It is a proven technique. So why not try something like this? You can always revert back to the old system if it's unsatisfactory. If nothing else, changing things will force the spammers to change their tactics. And if it takes a week or two for a moderator to get around to approving a registration, so what? Explain this to people with a warning that approval may take some time and they'll understand. If not, I suspect they probably would not have contributed anything. --[[User:Thundercraft|Thundercraft]] ([[User talk:Thundercraft|talk]]) 10:14, 11 December 2013 (UTC) | ||
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