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Four new account requests came in, all with the same justification text and IP address. I approved the first request that was made and deleted the three duplicate accounts. Perfect. Sometimes, new posters get antsy when they don’t get approved immediately.
There have been a few requests recently that have had sparse justification text and an email address in the “dispostable.com” (or disposable.com) domain. hannamarin for instance.
In the past I’ve deleted the user/request.
It looks like dispostable is a place people get temporary email addresses that expire. Maybe the requests are legit, maybe it’s people trying to gain access by getting around the registration protection via a temporary email account.
Thoughts? Could emails in certain domains be auto-rejected at the time the account request is submitted?
To me the justification is the most important thing when considering account requests. I think it’s clear what is being requested when the individual does it and it automatically weeds out the bots – unless bot programmers are now programming bots to recognize and supply a justification (such as “I’m a cheerful person”) that would work on many social sites. Anyway, I would not be opposed to a feature that auto-rejects suspect domains. I am opposed to email addresses from somewhere that supplies temporary addresses. That opens the door too wide for my comfort. However, I a,so agree that the justification text should be the deciding factor. I tend to delete requests that appear to be unresponsive to the prompt without hesitation. I think the ones where there is a question can be discussed here – but I trust people’s judgments on this.
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