Quote from: Kora on June 24, 2014, 03:26:52 AM

Quote from: gvans on June 24, 2014, 12:22:52 AM

Quote from: Kora on June 23, 2014, 10:46:52 PM

Quote from: zoata87 on June 23, 2014, 08:23:36 PM

Quote from: Kora on June 23, 2014, 03:16:33 PM

The rules are simple:
4. If your account is older than 3 months - 20 posts minimum
5. If your account is younger than 1 month - 40 posts minimum

These two rules are simply stupid.

Why so? Can you explain your criticism? As anti sockpuppet measures these type of rules seem necessary, but maybe you have a good suggestion. Without full identity document collection & KYC the best approach IMO is to use a number of anti-sock measures together, and the post count rules serve a purpose.

As always, suggestions are most welcome!!

The rules are in the right direction, but what do you require from account of 2 months of age? Wink

The account age & post count rules are cut-off marks. If your account is 2 months old you need more than 20 posts. Sorry, I can see there was room for confusion there! There are two variables - account age & post count - both can be used to estimate the likelihood that an account is a sockpuppet

I admit the account activity & age based rules could be set to different levels depending on what your priorities are.

We're trying to get a balance between making it difficult for sockpuppets on the one hand, but not making it too hard for genuine 'new users' to register on the other. No system of this nature could be perfect, unless we require full KYC, which we're not.

I'm glad Kora is free! If we get things wrong there wont be any need for refunds

To avoid confusion we have changed the account activity rules slightly.

The new rules are as follows.
a) Your BTT account is older than 3 months and has less than 20 quality posts
b) Your BTT account is younger than 3 month and has less than 40 quality posts

Remember, you can still apply if your BTT account activity puts you into a) or b) above, you'll just have an extra hurdle to jump over to register for Kora. We're trying to strike a balance - stop multiple account abuse from sockpuppets but not disadvantage new users of this forum.