Account Registration Changes
Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 4:01 pm
New account registration has been temporarily disabled. It will be reenabled after a suitable period of discouraging spam registration attempts.
Since January 1st, spammer registration attempts have greatly increased. After a couple days of this, all the anti-spambot Q&A registration page questions were changed as a countermeasure. After a couple more days, registration was set to Administrator approval. But it continued and the emails and deletions are just too annoying. The volume of spam registrations indicates there is a preliminary human learning process to it. What can only be folks desperate for income, they earn their money by entering correct anti-bot challenges such as Q&A or CAPTCHA codes into a database for the automated spambots to use. I am sorry for their pathetic lives, but the spammers will have to get their fix somewhere else.
Since January 1st, spammer registration attempts have greatly increased. After a couple days of this, all the anti-spambot Q&A registration page questions were changed as a countermeasure. After a couple more days, registration was set to Administrator approval. But it continued and the emails and deletions are just too annoying. The volume of spam registrations indicates there is a preliminary human learning process to it. What can only be folks desperate for income, they earn their money by entering correct anti-bot challenges such as Q&A or CAPTCHA codes into a database for the automated spambots to use. I am sorry for their pathetic lives, but the spammers will have to get their fix somewhere else.