Confirming email to register in a faucet is quite irritating, just make it possible for people to signup with their bitcoin address only which is possible to make.
I can understand how it'd be irritating, however I don't think you understand how irritating bots are. My original sign up page didn't involve email activation and there was a bunch of sign up with emails like "
lskgjhshb@gmail.com" and all within a short period of time. On the bright side, you only have to activate you email once. I know it's a hassle, but it takes 1-2 minutes and you get 2000 satoshi. I'm thinking of raising the reward to 2500 as more of an incentive. I'm sorry for the added layer of authentication, but it needs to be there. My old faucet had .38 taken away from bots in a very short period of time, I don't want it to happen again. On another note, I have 30 million satoshi arriving tomorrow!
EDIT Just made the reward 2500 satoshi!