Hello,

User registration is way too easy on Trac-Hacks and the Timeline shows 
that the feature is being abused.

Example from today:

53 TrilySummer edited by TrilySummer
New user TrilySummer registered
08:35 ruriwind edited by ruriwind
New user ruriwind registered
06:36 PiarbabWr edited by PiarbabWr
New user PiarbabWr registered
06:25 Margaritamix edited by Margaritamix
New user Margaritamix registered
06:14 trainen edited by trainen
New user trainen registered
05:20 Ticket #4936 (defect) created by anonymous
Load mmfile faild if its name has chinese character
05:19 MarSokolova edited by MarSokolova
New user MarSokolova registered
03:37 AndyWM edited by AndyWM
New user AndyWM registered
02:36 ladydee edited by ladydee
New user ladydee registered
04/16/09:

etc.  I figure most of those dummy users get deleted by hand, as it 
seems those pages are less frequent when looking back in time, but 
nevertheless it would be better to prevent those users to get registered 
in the first place. I think some minimal form of "human check" is now 
badly needed (I hope something like an addition-style captcha is not 
putting the bar too high for potential TH users...)

-- Christian

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