So we’re currently running another competition, giving away keys for a game beta, and though that it would be a great idea to make our community the focal point. Abuse is expected, in the past it has been pretty easy to detect duplicate signups and the other lengths nefarious key resellers will go t…

Might be relevant… Someone please correctly me if I’m wrong, but I believe… There are some checks to see if an “admin” IP address has been used to create an account. If the new account is created by an IP address shared with an “admin” this is not flagged as “Suspect”. Might have an higher impac…

Does that IP show up in the Screened IPs as Allowed?

It’s blocked since I added it, but wasn’t previously, no. 20+ accounts all on the same address. Each username is the same format of two dictionary words. Really unimaginative, just surprised it wasn’t caught.

Okay, last idea, did you recently change the following setting? levenshtein distance spammer emails (default is 2)

steve_pd: the definition of a Suspect User been changed? These are users with a completed profile but zero or very near zero read time. That is all. Signup of more than 2 new users at the same IP, who do not share IP with any staff users at @DeanMarkTaylor correctly noted, is blocked via a …

Things they have in common: Same IP Same registration time All ~2 minutes of reading time All responded to the same thread, with a single post, an image of some text. Blocking signups would just prompt people to use additional IPs, I need to be alerted to their existence, not present them with an…

"Suspect users" not behaving as expected?

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Stephen (Stephen) February 18, 2016, 2:45pm 3

Thanks Dean, in this case that’s not true for any of these users. 30 to 40 users on the same IP, all created today, thousands of miles from us.

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"Suspect users" not behaving as expected?

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