[support] How to safeguard sites from unwanted users

[Jamie Holly]

+1 to that! Also, they can't reuse the email. Make it harder on them, 
not easier.

Dealing with spam is always a pain. You need to balance out trying to 
prevent spam accounts with not complicating your user experience. Simple 
rule: the more hoops a user has to jump through to register, the less 
likely they are to register.

The big problem today is that there are people actually being paid to 
register spam accounts. One of the big culprits are these fly by night 
companies offering SEO help. They pay some foreign company to register 
accounts and spam sites, then they contact the site saying "HEY! We can 
help get your SEO ranking up". Of course that's after it was after their 
actions caused it to go down. It's a dirty practice, but one that does 
exist today and is continuing to grow.

Basically you aren't going to stop it. If you do, then sell your plan 
and watch Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and others pay you big bucks for it, 
especially when you consider the emails they are using are usually from 
one of those providers. Just keep on it, blocking the accounts as they 
pop up and eventually it will die off. Vigilance is the best tool to 
combat spam.

Jamie Holly
http://www.intoxination.net
http://www.hollyit.net

On 6/12/2013 9:55 AM, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 12:46 AM, Kamal Palei wrote:
> > Tracey
> > Thanks a lot. Probably spambot will guard against spam users registration to
> > some extent.
> >
> > If somehow, some spam users register in site (we can determine manually or
> > automated way), I would like to re-use the UID allocated for spam users
> > should be re-used for future valid users. In that case, do we have any
> > modules or any existing mechanism to achieve re-using the UIDs allocated to
> > spam users previously.
>
> You want to block and not delete those SPAM users so they cannot use
> the same user name for the SPAM.  At least that is my take on life on
> the internet.
>