Jesse the man wrote:
There's a way around bots. - there are "authentication" devices which present a string of numbers from an image that one has to correctly type in if he or she wants to register.
That's called CAPTCHA, which Nicholas referred to:
(If your next suggestion is "CAPTCHA", I have a two-word response: "blind people".)
We only recently had a poll on Abe's suggestion (albeit suggested by someone else), and I think it's clear that the community doesn't want such a system implemented.
Having spent five or six years interacting with people on the internet, I've found that it's the troublemakers who will go to great lengths to irritate people while the more useful people don't have the time to register.
John Lee ([[User:Johnleemk]])