We have had an increase in applicants wanting to be users on the board that have bad IPs or Emails or both. The SFS? software has been awesome. It's interesting because more and more of them are using usernames and display names if they get by that are:

urewr84345w

which seems obvious it isn't legit.

1. Do you know why there are more spammers that know they will be less likely to be successful with those weird usernames?

2. Once they get by the other 58 admins, lol, and I see the name and go to their profile, click on check email and it comes up bad, should I just ban them?

If I decline them in the beginning, they can always try to reapply, but if I ban them, it seems harsher, and I don't want to make a mistake.


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