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> invite only

Unkindness of the Crow.

Not even my local, most elitist hackerspace requires an introduction and, apparently, ideally a dossier.

I'll pass.

The offline community does not have a problem with spammers/impersonators. For online communities this is much more difficult. I don't know what kind of struggle and filtering HN implemented to deal this it. But I do not want to build complicated anti-abuse systems. Right now registration is open, after certain size i will "restrict" registrations.

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