How to prevent users from using gibberish Usernames and Email Addresses?

Question

I think everyone can sing up with wrong names in wevsites  like usernames fkrgdufjfhfh or zjsgdudjdv or shdgdjdj just typing anything  and it is accepted

Also in gmail or other wmails like this fkfhfufhfh@gmail.com or any words. And been accepted too

So my question how to make that work for me with realnames and real usernames also real emails  in sing up?

Comments

This is a big problem, so i shutdown user registration, and allow users without registering,

My Suggestion for q2a developers:
In q2a site, must be a option before rgistering user must validate email, otherwise dont register user.

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Yes .. after i tried everything i still have the same problem, sometimes thinking  in problems of this script will change the script and never use it ever

Answer 1

This can be solved with an e-mail validation plugin. I'm not sure if there is one already.

Comments

YES BUT  there is nothing to do with that everyone ignored it

Answer 2

also the question2answer script have the same  i tried to sing up with fhdhjddj  and it is accepted

Answer 3

The best solution is :

We need to use sing up or sing in only with social media like Facebook or google accounts

And find a way to remove the login form from the theme so i will give a try and tell you what i did next

So i use social media now to login and sing up  but i still have a to change the login sing up page

Answer 4

I guess that's a case for: "That's not a bug, it's a feature!" .

You could create filters to check for gibberish patterns, but what if someone really has an email that looks like that?

For instance, if you try to create an email like this "dufgfjfhfhfh@outlook.com" on Google or Hotmail, you could still create one, and it would be a "real" email address.

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As suggested by @sitouzani and I've also mentioned this before somewhere, the best way of dealing with spam registrations would be to have Social Media logins only, and remove the Q2A registration field. Let the big dogs handle the spam, as they have teams for it.

But if you want to keep the Q2A registration field in, you could use a combination of plugins like:

• Q2A Honeypot
• Question2Answer AntiBot Captcha
• SRS - SPAM Registration Stopper

As suggested on this quetion: Stop spam with registration field.