Forum Post: Email confirmation for new user accounts
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 7, 2011, 2:10 a.m. EST by Boletus
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Regarding the spam/troll attack, an email confirmation system for new accounts would go along way, especially with a 15-minute lag before confirmation emails are sent. It might be less labor-intensive than deleting a zillion bogus posts. I don't know what it takes to do that with what you have, but good luck, and thanks for your hard work mods.
Yeah, it could be a lot better. Any measure like this can be circumvented though. Facebook does a fairly good job so maybe discussions can happen there.
What the troll doesn't realize is that he is (eventually) strengthening the movement. A central forum is a central point of failure, and this troll doesn't realize he's providing the impetus for creating more meeting places.