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Gmail is trash tier now - Gmail signups disabled on the forum due to spammers.

4 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/gmail-is-trash-tier-now-gmail-signups-disabled-on-the-forum-due-to-spammers.212542/

Desmond
Desmond Original post #1
Jul 18, 2024 at 8:39 PM
Inb4 someone asks, no, I am not drunk, I am completely sober. However, what I am is absolutely livid at the number of spammers I have to deal with everyday here on the forum. And what grinds my gears even more is that almost all of them come with gmail accounts.

Given my busy schedule, I have fallen behind on cleaning up all recent spammers and to stop even more coming in, I will have to block signups via gmail for the time being. It will remain so until I cleanup a couple months worth of spammers. So, if you are one of these guys who want to signup via gmail and see a "email not allowed" or some such message, this is the reason.

If any of you are not spammers and want to join the forum, sorry for the inconvenience and I hope that gmail will be allowed soon.

PS: While this post is mostly about gmail, I also deal with other nefarious email domains. A lot of them are already blacklisted.

PPS: I will be monitoring recent signups and other email providers might also get blocked. If that happens I will post here. I wish I could temporarily block signups altogether but well, I don't have that privilege.
Nerevarine
Jul 20, 2024 at 12:04 AM
Have you tried signing up at new things with

youremail+newthing@gmail.com.

This way you are not in their mailing list directly and if they have some automated spamming procedure, you can always find the culprit who shared your email.
Desmond
Desmond #3
Jul 20, 2024 at 1:37 AM
Sorry, I was not clear. I was talking about spammers on the forum. I have edited the post to specify that.

As for what you have posted.I have set a filter to disallow such emails that have a discriminator when people sign up here. Spammers used to use this to make accounts here but they can no longer do so.
Nerevarine
Jul 20, 2024 at 4:52 PM
Sorry, I was not clear. I was talking about spammers on the forum. I have edited the post to specify that.

As for what you have posted.I have set a filter to disallow such emails that have a discriminator when people sign up here. Spammers used to use this to make accounts here but they can no longer do so.
lol oops