There are different opinions on Beehaw’s registration process. I kind of see how some people would find it dissuasive, specially after most of us are coming from Reddit. But I still think it’s very practical, at least for the time being.

Btw, this is only my opinion as a new user, I don’t know any of the admins/mods. Link to my original comment.

  • lumarius [she/her]@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    It’s good to ask users to write a bit about their thoughts to a) make it a bit harder to register bot armies, b) make users read the rules, and c) disincentivize unfriendly users from registering. Just the delay in registration is probably enough to make the majority of unwanted accounts seek out some other place.

    The registration said registrations would usually be approved within day. Mine took a few dsys, which is very understandable, but unless I’m the exception the estimated time could be set to a bit longer to give mods time to approve people.