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user-inactivated  ·  2818 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Good lord. Thoughts on bulk spam?

Did hubski ever implement an email verification check? I think when I created my account it didn't have one.

I don't know if that actually helps, but surely there's some reason every website has one.





user-inactivated  ·  2818 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Did hubski ever implement an email verification check? I think when I created my account it didn't have one.

Presumably not. Didn't have to for Ay-Nawn or kantos. In fact, both accounts are tied to the same email. Pretty sure Ay-Nawn had to be inactivated first for that to happen, though.

user-inactivated  ·  2818 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I don't know if that actually helps, but surely there's some reason every website has one.

So they have a real email address to spam/sell.

user-inactivated  ·  2817 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Or to ask about unauthorized access, or if someone forgets a password, etc.

And it surely does something to deter bots. I dunno.

FuzzyWords  ·  2817 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't think it can deter bots. One can create a single gmail account shared by all bots and then when registering do this: myspamaccount+bot1@gmail.com myspamaccount+bot2@gmail.com ...

All those emails will get redirected to the single account myspamaccount@gmail.com