I saw that this instance had a large number of users so I thought “more users->more content->more fun”. Apparently, I had to prove my value by answering 3 questions that showed my interest in their community and my value as a potential future member.

What could possibly be my value to a general purpose instance besides money? I’m a software/cloud engineer so I guess there are things I could help with, but my guess is they were expecting me to say “I can donate”.

I get it, they need donations to exist, but this upfront? And to a community I don’t even know? Maybe I’m imagining things and they were looking for something else?

Do all instances rely on donations? I’d like to contribute to the instances I enjoy at some point. But only if I feel at home with them, not as a prerequisite to join.

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    1 year ago

    I don’t think this is about donations. Did you try registering again with more information about why you want to join?

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      1 year ago

      Like, is this really how they are filtering users? Do they know what chatgpt is? Because I could literally copy their rules and philosophy and generate 1000 outputs for bot accounts if I was evil.

      I really don’t feel like cheating anyone with Chatgpt and I also don’t feel like writing an essay explaining my worth. I’ll just wait until they relax the interview process.

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        1 year ago

        You keep saying this but maybe you should have just done it lmao seems like you’re just here crying, seems to me their filtering system is working

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          1 year ago

          I’m just answering to the people who replied to my post, is that wrong? And no, I won’t use tools to bypass security measures. I’m just pointing out an obvious flaw in their filter.