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crnogorac081:
Hi,

I noticed lately that there were more and more spam messages on forum. People register account and their first post is spam.. Is there a way we could prevent this in future, by letting moderators approve first post (or first some) for new users.. Is something like this available (or easy to implement) in SMF ?

cheers

kweitzel:
I think we could enable the approval of registrations, but wouldn't that put people off? Anyway, could you recommend a mod for SMF which does that and would you be willing to take part of that work onto your shoulders?

cheers

Klaus

Waldschwein:
Hello!

I don't really know because I don't use SMF personally, but look here: http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?action=search;type=13

Perhaps http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=999 might fit.

Yours Michael

Edit: I think having to register before being able to write is no real harm to people, because most people register.
But - also spam bots register.  :wink:

kweitzel:
The issue here is that we have a limited resources available and if we implement those kinds of functions, me might:

a) put people off because registration is not easy.
b) require more resources for forum maintenance.

Additionally when installing such a mod it can always come to incompatibilities with the existing installation which then means disruption of service.

So that is why I looked at the existing resources in our installation first and that was "approval of registration" which means, that a user can not directly post but needs to wait for someone to approve his registration first.

The main question still is: Is anybody else willing to help maintaining the forum?

@Waldschwein: Thanks for taking the time to actually look into the options available!

cheers

Klaus

crnogorac081:
I am willing to delete this stupid spam comments :)

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