# "Questionable" account checks at the time of signup?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/questionable-account-checks-at-the-time-of-signup/19068>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [19 Agosto , 2014 22:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/questionable-account-checks-at-the-time-of-signup/19068 "2014-08-19T22:09:10Z")\
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**Post date:** [19 Agosto , 2014 21:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/questionable-account-checks-at-the-time-of-signup/19068/1 "2014-08-19T21:35:34Z")

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Why do that, when you can use “Project Honeypot”, that does it in a much better, distributed way.

We can also check IP address during the registration, to require admin approval:

> **[The Web's Largest Community Tracking Online Fraud & Abuse | Project Honey Pot](https://www.projecthoneypot.org/)**
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> A free, distributed, open-source project to help website administrators track, stop, and prosecute spam harvesters stealing email addresses from their sites.

The best part is that you do all the checks with simple DNS requests that will be cached by your DNS provider.

I’m sorry for not suggesting this first (I just came around it a few days ago). @codinghorror, do you think this can be added?

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