[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] Prevent mechanical signups by malicious users (Issue #4307)

[Tom Hughes]

> Is this or previous spam wave some share characteristics of accounts that could allow to detect or target malicious users, beyond blanket suppressing of automated account creation?

What exactly do you think I've been doing for the last few weeks but trying to apply such blocks - options are limited when faced with a determined attacker.

A captcha is unlikely to help with the recent issues anyway as we long since stopped them doing bulk account creations and they now only create two or three at a time which can be done manually.

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