Spam Messages and registration of new users
Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2022 11:06 pm
I just removed a large number of spam messages.
In order to reduce the registrations of fake accounts and spam, I recently changed the registration from the security questions to an image with numbers that users have to type in. This did not work well and the number of spam messages increased faster than I could remove them. I therefore want to try the following:
Reintroducing the security questions (which I changed)
Manual approval of the registrations by the admin.
As I can not know if a registration is real or not by the email address or name, I will require that the person send me an additional "application" email.
I hope that this will work better.
Oliver
In order to reduce the registrations of fake accounts and spam, I recently changed the registration from the security questions to an image with numbers that users have to type in. This did not work well and the number of spam messages increased faster than I could remove them. I therefore want to try the following:
Reintroducing the security questions (which I changed)
Manual approval of the registrations by the admin.
As I can not know if a registration is real or not by the email address or name, I will require that the person send me an additional "application" email.
I hope that this will work better.
Oliver