# "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:** [8월 19, 2014, 10:09오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/questionable-account-checks-at-the-time-of-signup/19068 "2014-08-19T22:09:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [8월 19, 2014, 9:44오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/questionable-account-checks-at-the-time-of-signup/19068/2 "2014-08-19T21:44:19Z")

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Checks at the time of account creation I am definitely in favor of, that is a very inexpensive time to do checks.

edit: I don’t know if this would help with the _original_ problem, which was about spam accounts created using Tor exit point IPs, but I think it is a good idea in general.

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