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by mtmail 1109 days ago
We have to block several users per day for creating multiple accounts. I can tell you no amount of wording on the website will work, people have multiple email addresses and many use burner/disposable/temporary emails for signup. As first line of defense add a captcha, then rate-limiting by IP address. Some download website have a counter "You can continue after waiting 10 minutes ... or upgrade now", that might work here.
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Hmm, some interesting suggestions there. Thanks!

Captcha is a good one and easy to implement for now. Will do that.