can't create an account: SpamBayes rejects attempts

[ianayoung]

I've attempted to create an account. It's rejected as follows:

Error: Submission rejected as potential spam
SpamBayes determined spam probability of 98.90%

[stoecker]

Well. If you are able to do a submission with a 98% Spam score you need to check what you're doing. On the registration page you have a comment field. If you fill that with useful human generated content (i.e valid proper written text describing what you are and what you do) should reduce your spam score a lot. And filling the captcha also helps.

Otherwise opening a ticket with nearly no information (i.e. the username, the time, if you saw and filled a captcha and so on) is not helpful. With a spam score above 90 I cannot help you much, as any attempts with >90% aren't logged because we get thousands a day.

[ianayoung]

On the registration page, there was a field called "Details" which was clearly marked "Optional", so I didn't fill it in.

That does turn out to be the problem, though, and I have now managed to create an account. Thanks for your assistance.

[stoecker]

Replying to ianayoung:

On the registration page, there was a field called "Details" which was clearly marked "Optional", so I didn't fill it in.

Well it is clearly optional. You only need it when your Spam score is to high ☺️

And this is nowhere stated nearby to prevent spammers learning too fast. Most people try filling all fields when first submission is rejected.