This proved surprisingly effective at minimizing malicious calls. I
think they felt as if they'd "beaten" the system, and so they moved on.
Some even joined the club. In contrast, local operators with the most
draconian policies seemed to attract the most vengeful vandals.
A lot of "daconian" (I like the usage) systems used voice validation to
verify new account info to prevent abuse and other problems. On the
upside, I did get the oportunity to get into some pretty cool
conversations with some new users while doing validation rounds.
- Paul