The PigPen's Resplendent Kaffeeklatsch

[wasellajam]

Yes. They are bots. They are usually distinguished by a proper first name followed by a few more letters. (Paulhhyus). I purged a handful of them this morning but it's a bit of a tedious process because I need to confirm they're bots first. Currently showing 99 accounts awaiting activation. LOL.

Wasn't there at some point a time limit to activate and after that they just go ppffftt? Do you have to manually delete?

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we are a workshop so that's why the feedback's as it is. we could be one of a million vanity sites and have gazillions of posts with gushing feedback on how good everything is.

when someone joins they get an activation email. most sites including poetry sites have it. it's a way of checking an email exists. i usually try and delete account not activated after 24 hrs. the one that's up now joined at 1 26 am my time. 24 hours is way long enough to activate.

So seems he was manually deleting them. Is it less tedious to delete rather than ban? Then if they were just slow they could rejoin. Not that any of these will, just saying.