Red Hats

[Barrister]

Actually - I thought new members had to be approved, and since Moldy was such an absentee landlord around here that could take weeks, which is part of why we never get new members?

I had registration disabled entirely, so new members only got created when Jacob or I added them manually.  I recently decided to try re-enabling registration, but using challenge questions for verification.  Not simple things like "What's 2+2?", but lookup knowledge questions like "What year was The Hunt For Red October released?".  Seems to be working well enough so far; only four new registrations in the past couple weeks.  I haven't checked to see if failed registrations are being logged anywhere, but before I shut registrations off we were getting dozens of bot registrations a day.

Thanks for clarifying!

I mean I don't think we've had a meaningful new user in at least a decade, but something about the idea we're literally closed to new members wouldn't sit quite right.

Thanks for all your hard work.

[Jacob]

I guess the ones that get through - like our anal friend - use AI to answer these questions successfully.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

I'm fascinated.  I need to see if I can log some detail on these interactions.  I assumed that spamming random little message boards wouldn't be worth the token cost of running an LLM against the signup process, but maybe it is.