Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on June 24, 2006 08:07 PM
Hi,
maybe anonymous registration could help to prevent the problem you described with IRC.
I think in it the following way: Each user can register, without any email required within seconds. You get some kind of key with which you may enter the channels. Channel-Operators may freely decide on how long such a key has to be registered until someone may enter this channel. (e.g. 24 hours). To prevent bots to create thousands of keys, there additionaly has to be some human verifaction (like images with numbers) to get such a key.
Advantages: - anonymity is untouched - you can block/ban users based on keys - no automatic creation of accounts, always some human has to be present
Disadvantages: - new users have to wait some time until they can chat in protected channels
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 24, 2006 08:07 PMmaybe anonymous registration could help to prevent the problem you described with IRC.
I think in it the following way:
Each user can register, without any email required within seconds. You get some kind of key with which you may enter the channels. Channel-Operators may freely decide on how long such a key has to be registered until someone may enter this channel. (e.g. 24 hours).
To prevent bots to create thousands of keys, there additionaly has to be some human verifaction (like images with numbers) to get such a key.
Advantages:
- anonymity is untouched
- you can block/ban users based on keys
- no automatic creation of accounts, always some human has to be present
Disadvantages:
- new users have to wait some time until they can chat in protected channels
What do you think?
What did I forget/oversee?
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