I plan to have people type an application to register but will deny creeps and obviously bots. What would be the best questions to ask/way to tell that someone is a creep with ill intentions?

I have some ideas, but I’m looking for more, actual ideas from the Lemmy community. Ex: (if I make it a 13+ instance) What age range do you plan on interacting with? What do you plan on talking about with these people? What do you plan to do here?

  • atomic peach@pawb.socialEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Be careful asking too many questions as most people won’t read and you’ll end up denying perfectly fine users. You’ll also end up reading essays for each application, which is tedious at best. A simple, “what about <this Lemmy instance> makes you want to join us instead of another instance?” would probably work perfectly fine.

    • Flagstaff@programming.devEnglish
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      14 hours ago

      most people won’t read and you’ll end up denying perfectly fine users.

      I think that is a good outcome and that any such people are absolutely not “perfectly fine,” correspondingly. I also think the count of such people would be very low in the first place.