this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2023
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When an account is signed up, is there information such as client ip address that could also be used to spot more inauthentic activity? And more generally, sign up should probably be made resistant to automated bots by randomizing HTML layout & ids and using captchas so it's not so easy to drive sign up through scripts.