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leftstreet

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9. It's a discussion forum that would fail

Reply to MineralMan (Original post)

Sun Feb 18, 2018, 10:31 PM

Feb 2018

It may or may not be a good idea, but not many people would WAIT for a snail mail letter to enter a code. Maybe a cellphone # with verification code? People are accustomed to that for various things like banking, cable tv accts, etc.

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So, if someone had a great political discussion forum where [View all] MineralMan Feb 2018 OP

A way to battle bots and trolls? Kaleva Feb 2018 #1

That would stop almost all of them. MineralMan Feb 2018 #3

I think it is a good idea. Sophia4 Feb 2018 #6

Thanks for your reply. MineralMan Feb 2018 #7

I got to think about it... SWBTATTReg Feb 2018 #2

Well, Facebook has mine. I'd worry MineralMan Feb 2018 #4

Really! I don't have a FB acct, don't plan on it either. I think DU and its administrators are ... SWBTATTReg Feb 2018 #8

a million times YES Takket Feb 2018 #5

It's a discussion forum that would fail leftstreet Feb 2018 #9

You could be right. Still, I'd probably sign up, if the discussions there MineralMan Feb 2018 #10

Since it has already been deemed to be "great".... NCTraveler Feb 2018 #11

Well, I'm assuming that someone has read some discussions MineralMan Feb 2018 #12