tronagirl wrote:Two of my friends say that they've tried to get accounts at this forum, but that they're accounts haven't been activated yet. Both of them claim that they sent the email to the address shown at the beginning of this topic, but nothing has happened. Either they got the address wrong or the administrator of this forum isn't doing a good job of administrating!
I have activated all accounts for which I received a corresponding email which was sent to the address listed above. I check that email account daily.
surfsteve wrote:What about confining new users to a specific part of the forum till they have manually made a couple of posts to prove they are actually a human being?
The problem is that this board receives over 1000 account requests per week. Here is what some of the typical usernames that I get look like:
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It's probably not a good idea to burden the database with thousands of spam accounts. I've seen forums that restrict new users until they are fully activated, but that still requires that the database carry thousands of spam accounts between prunings.