Previously, each user registration had to be manually approved by an admin and this is/was manageable during low sign-up periods but also add a lot of friction to people who just want to take a look and participate in the forums.
We’re trialling a new system to prevent bots/scammers but as always this will take time to finetune so just a heads up!
Suggest in the site_settings.json add offensive names to the list so users can’t register with them:
"setting": "reserved_usernames",
"description": "Usernames for which signup is not allowed.",
"default": "admin|moderator|administrator|mod|sys|system|community|info|you|name|username|user|nickname|discourse|discourseorg|discourseforum|support",
"type": "list",
"value": "ebassi-Drumpf|getmogged|gitbranch|slave|master|zcash|amdocs|six7",
"category": "users",
"preview": null
},
Also suggest looking into adding the geoblocking plugin → GitHub - discourse/discourse-geoblocking: Restricts access to content based upon the user's geographical location (IP location). · GitHub
and put IN in the geoblocking_blocked_countries list which will greatly help alot