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Originally Posted by WATCH_D0GS UNITED
Very simple solution:
In order to sign-up at AlliedModders.net, please send $3 to the following address..."
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Sounds like we're having some of the same thoughts?
Well, once in the past, on Discord, someone was bringing up something, that sounded like complaints that the administrators/moderators were not doing enough in order to combat the spam on the forums, although I didn't comment it at that time, I was thinking about a comment like:
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Originally Posted by DarkDeviL's Thought
We can always set up a $100 USD registration fee, that you have to pay in order to have your account activated. It will likely kill a lot of the spam bots, but it will surely also prevent some people from being able to participate.
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I'm however under the impression that we would get a lot of hate with that...
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Originally Posted by Mordekay
That would stop them all at once.
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I don't think we would be stopping all of them at once, alone with a $3 fee though.
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Originally Posted by Mordekay
But to be fair to users out of not so rich countries, it should be any currency and a low number.
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I don't think a low number would give the solution to the problem though.
In the end, we're always getting back to:
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Originally Posted by DarkDeviL
That being said, I will be more than happy to admit that I also believe more things could be tried, in order to act more pro-actively to the issues.
But two questions comes up again and again, in regards to that:
- How many false positives do we want?
- What is most important?
a) Effective spam bot defence
b) That we are not limiting the ability for regular users to use the forums.
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A registration fee could solve 2.a, but it will add complications in regards to 2.b, especially if we're talking about the not so rich countries, as mentioned above.
An alternative to the registration fee could be the KYC kind of way, like banks / financial institutions, where we would require identity documents (e.g. passport, driver license, ...) in order to activate the account.
But such kind of KYC would likely be scaring people away, or otherwise give complications just like a registration fee would.
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