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Originally Posted by pope
One of the forums I was on *check notes* almost 20 years ago combated spam/scam accounts through a variety of measures:
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A forum I still check a couple times a year, and have been on for the last 15-20 years did it by asking you to answer a question on registration that you would only know the answer to if you had any actual interest in the subject. Something like "Who is the drift king?" Never saw a scammer or bot. Some hackers did get into it through an issue in the software and locked the admin out of the site unless they paid a ransom in bitcoin. They ended up just redoing the whole forum and losing tons of historical data
