admin wrote:FlyingPig wrote:mrfish wrote:Anonymizer wrote:I have a friend who has been trying to get signed up for the last few weeks. What seems to be the problem?
The same thing is happening to a friend of mine. He's tried signing up three times in the last two weeks and so far none of his accounts have been activated. What do you have to do to get accepted here? Submit a credit report or what? I read the post about all the spam accounts. Maybe his usernames looked to spammish or something. I try to get him to use a more normal username or something!
It ONLY took me four tries before one of my usernames got accepted!
(Now I've gotta figure out how to get my user picture thing loaded! It's a flying pig in case anyone wants to know!)
Thanks for your persistence. There have been days where I've been spammed with over 100 fake account requests. Most of the names are obvious spam, but some are borderline and difficult to tell if they are spam or not. I can look at other information to make a determination, but that is extremely time-consuming.
Is there some way to filter out the spam? I have a couple friends who have tried to set up accounts who were apparently rejected.