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I'm trying to figure out a way to control spam. I've tried a number of things:

  • Q&A Captcha
  • Other Captcha's
  • Turning off new registrations for a while.
  • Banning keywords that spammers like to use.
  • Require new account first 5 posts to be manually approved.
  • etc.

I thought I would give manual approving all new registrations a try. Given the limited info you see when doing manual new account approval...I'm finding it difficult to know which new accounts are from...

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