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Forum Admins: Registration
« on: February 14, 2016, 01:28:47 pm »
Hey. 1ce's brother here, I just have a few notes to make on the forum's current registration of countless spambots... Not sure who's in control of the forum settings because 1ce isn't responding at the moment, but I would highly recommend to whoever IS, they change the "Method of registration employed for new members" to Email Activation. Seriously - the Immediate Registration setting is just begging for these spammers to come and tear it up in here. StopForumSpam will not catch 'em all (:p)

I did however change one thing: the Verification Question. Eventually, someone is going to have to change it again (or add more of them) because the spammers WILL eventually figure it out and get by that portion. The Visual Verification is pretty much useless and easy for most bots to figure out. You'll know when they've broken the questions when you suddenly have an enormous registration approval queue, which I also just went through and wiped out.... I'm seeing on the memberlist however that there are still a LOT of them hanging around that SFS didn't catch - but I'll leave it to you guys to take care of them as you see fit.

1ce knows how to get in touch with me if anyone has any questions of me. Just trying to help out a bit, and keep your Intro board a little cleaner ;)

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Re: Forum Admins: Registration
« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2016, 03:27:12 pm »
So I changed that setting >.> We were watching the number of members awaiting approval rise :P

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Re: Forum Admins: Registration
« Reply #2 on: February 14, 2016, 04:34:53 pm »
Ahh.. He didn't tell me that, just showed me a pic of the insane number of "Hi I'm so glad I'm spamming you!" posts lol.

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Re: Forum Admins: Registration
« Reply #3 on: February 14, 2016, 06:15:13 pm »
Well they were awaiting approval because they were spam bots. Saying "ok let's just allow you in so we don't have to see the count" was not a good choice imo.

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Re: Forum Admins: Registration
« Reply #4 on: February 15, 2016, 04:37:22 am »
Well they were awaiting approval because they were spam bots. Saying "ok let's just allow you in so we don't have to see the count" was not a good choice imo.

I didn't change any setting

 

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