jbake62 wrote:Hi there, oh my lord is it difficult to register just to get on this site. No where, and i mean NO WHERE can i find the answers to the forum questions.
Welcome to the forum, I am glad you made it through the registration.
I just went through and tested the questions and didn't have any problem getting it to work so the mechanism is working well.
If you are not from the US the name of the bunny might not be as obvious but the device question is pretty broad, not sure what we could do to make it easier without allowing it to be too easy for the spammers as well.
Which brings up the reason we had to implement the questions. Before we had the questions we were getting so many spammers sign up that all the mods did was delete spammers. When it peaked we were getting 10,000 (yes TEN THOUSAND) accounts created a day. Luckily most of them were not able to confirm the registration because of no valid email address but it still led to us deleting hundreds of spam posts and thousands of users every day.
What made this even worse is that among the thousands of spammers and hundreds of spam posts we sometimes deleted real users, especially if they didn't post in the 'Hello World' thread where it was easier to find them.
I am sorry that it is a little more difficult to register now. Since we have made these changes the number of spammer registrations has dropped to zero (statistically speaking). I think we have deleted half a dozen or so since then. It has made life for the moderators much more pleasant. I really enjoy opening up the the moderator console and finding a message from a real new user.
p.s. You found the name of the bunny, you used it in this message