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Can registrations on kbin.social be disabled to stop spammers (kbin.social)

submitted 9 months ago by 0x1C3B00DA@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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kbin.social is being overrun with spammers. Can we disable registrations on this instance so they can't keep creating new accounts? Every day I log on, I have to spend the first 20-30 minutes, reporting and blocking a bunch of new accounts.

Here are some that were just created today:
https://kbin.social/u/dfgdfgfdfgfdh
https://kbin.social/u/nyfejevy
https://kbin.social/u/vepotal774
https://kbin.social/u/ayman01
https://kbin.social/u/MariaesNichols
https://kbin.social/u/nidhiroute
https://kbin.social/u/dcesdff
https://kbin.social/u/mauntehilss
https://kbin.social/u/nidhirout
https://kbin.social/u/noraharris0

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[–] QualifiedKitten@kbin.social 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Are you guys browsing by new? Do you moderate active communities? I'm just curious to understand why we seem to have such different experiences since I only encounter spam once or twice per week, but I definitely spend way too many hours scrolling.

[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago

Yes, I quite often browse by new