As some may have noticed, we had a spam issue here. Unfortunately this is common these days, just way too much spam out there. The overwhelming majority of all the accounts were created using .ru email addresses, and we had no Russian signups before. Therefore, any attempts to sign up with a .ru email address will fail. If you are a legitimate user, please just use another email address for the purpose of signing up here. If you are a spammer, continue to try using that email address
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Another countermeasure has been put in place during registration that should also thin out the spam bots without making life on legitimate humans much harder.