Note that most of your comments fall into the category described in my previous sentence – it’s very hard to script us because we are so complex, compared to a 1999 era HTML 1.0 website. ![]() Automated spammers (minus bamwar) haven’t really been a huge problem in Discourse because we are so hard to automate against being a full bore JavaScript application. I mean they fill out user profiles, upload profile images, and everything. Historically speaking, the trend has been toward 100% human spammers over time. I dunno this feels more like we need CAPTCHA user creation plugin to me? I don’t feel “let’s disallow dots and plusses” is treating the underlying disease, it’s only addressing the symptoms of the problem? They already have thousands of accounts on this single gmail address. ![]() ![]() For example, using the username+ trick, someone created 748 accounts in the last 10hrs.
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