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Difficult registration
It took me quite a while to register. At the end there was a question which I did not understand. It had somthing to do with a 'Vader'. I finaly found what it was about, looking at the internet. And in the end I even found the answer there. I hope this is not done to ban people that are from a different culture, or even from countries that do not have starwars on TV every night? Please, a question concerning more common knowledge
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- I'm not a moderator on the forum and I'm not a Star Wars fan. I didn't know the answer to one of the security questions and also needed to search for it. I did not think it was discriminatory, and I certainly don't believe the intention of any security question is to make access more difficult for any particular group of people.
I think whatever question is posed for security may present some difficulty to some users.
I think you will find that you are welcomed to the forum and that it will be extremely beneficial to you and your readynas user experience. - The aim is not to prevent genuine users from registering, the questions are there to make it harder for spammers to register. There are a few different security questions that are asked at random. The current group of questions has been quite effective at limiting the number of registrations from spammers.
Welcome to the forum! - When I was running the site, the only question was 'who makes readynas?' with valid answers of infrant or netgear. Since then, OOM-9 added other Star Wars questions for Luke and Vader. Agreed, that these are not in the same realm as this product specific forum, and a large portion of the planet has not seen Star Wars (*gasp*).
- O.K. I just changed the question. Hopefully the spambots don't figure this one out easily but it's easier for genuine users
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