Mandatory New Account Aproval

TypeYourTextHere · 11-26-2011, 09:13 AM

I am sure that many of you guys have seen my rant posts about all the freaking spammers. I was thinking about it and I came up with a possible solution to help curb/eliminate these annoying posts by implementing an account approval process. I have been on some forums that use this to do exactly this. It is kind of annoying for the users who want to ask questions, but there are mods on most of the time anyway. What do you think about this and is it possible with this forum?

Summer · 11-26-2011, 10:01 AM

There are a lot of new signups each day here, and it's not always that easy to tell who is a spammer, unless they have something obvious in their username/email address. I used to run a forum and we did try this, and we were a much smaller forum. We found pretty quickly that if you made someone wait for approval then the chances of them coming back and posting depleted pretty rapidly. I know the spam is annoying but I think our mods do a good job of catching the posts pretty quickly, and those of us who have been here for even a short while can pick out the spam posts and ignore them without much trouble... Just my thoughts on the matter.

TypeYourTextHere · 11-30-2011, 08:54 AM

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Originally Posted by jccaclimber

It wouldn't surprise me if a lot of spammers do the capcha manually and let their system do the posts after that. If that's the case it may not keep them out, but will cause a lot of work for the mods. Maybe only letting new members make one post in introductions, and one in emergencies for their first 24 hours?

That makes great sense. That would definitely be a better solution than mine. MediaHound, you should totally do this.

FishFlow · 12-05-2011, 12:17 AM

Funny, i'm on here multiple times daily, for about 2 months and have yet to see a spam thread. Lol, maybe i'm in chat too much. x2 with summer, i would not have stuck around waiting for membership to be *approved* not when there are hundreds of other forums.

ProudWitch · 12-10-2011, 07:39 AM

I log on here in the mornings and read the new post section the way some people read their morning paper and the amount of spam is getting out of hand.This morning there was over 130 spam posts just in the 1st 6 pages. I didn't even bother going on to the next pages to read any more.Do people get paid to post this kind of spam and clog up forums?

TypeYourTextHere · 12-10-2011, 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by ProudWitch

I log on here in the mornings and read the new post section the way some people read their morning paper and the amount of spam is getting out of hand.This morning there was over 130 spam posts just in the 1st 6 pages. I didn't even bother going on to the next pages to read any more.Do people get paid to post this kind of spam and clog up forums?

As I have been told before, there are bots that do this. I had made a suggestion to MediaHound this morning via PM that if it is possible to make a "3 strikes" rule where if 3 people reported a post then it would be auto removed or be invisible until a mod made it viewable again(if this is even possible).

susankat · 12-10-2011, 07:13 PM

It has never gotten to more than 2 reporting the same post before one of the mods come in and delete them so what would be the point of MediaHound setting it up.

TypeYourTextHere · 12-10-2011, 07:46 PM

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Originally Posted by susankat

It has never gotten to more than 2 reporting the same post before one of the mods come in and delete them so what would be the point of MediaHound setting it up.

It was just a thought I had. There are no demands being made...yet

ProudWitch · 12-11-2011, 12:04 PM

It was just a thought I had that someone must be getting paid to doing those posts. Otherwise why spend all that time typing them up?If not, some people must be awfully bored.

TypeYourTextHere · 12-11-2011, 12:09 PM

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Originally Posted by ProudWitch

It was just a thought I had that someone must be getting paid to doing those posts. Otherwise why spend all that time typing them up?If not, some people must be awfully bored.

My guess is that Chinese workers will do anything. Would you rather work in a sweat shop or an office?..... I know, I know, That was just mean.

ProudWitch · 12-12-2011, 02:15 AM

It's hard to tell what goes on in the minds of fools who do stuff like clogging up forums with spam. I used to enjoy having a cup of coffee and reading the new posts in the mornings cause I wake up really early. Don't enjoy having to scroll down 10 spam posts to read 1 aquarium post, but it's getting that bad. I don't know if there is an effective way to prevent them or to block them once they've been caught.

majerah1 · 12-12-2011, 05:31 AM

IP's.But nowadays its not hard to mask or even change yours.

Summer · 12-12-2011, 07:42 AM

Pulling from experience running a forum in the past, this wont fix the whole problem but may cut it down...there should be an option to block certain words from being used on the forum....how about blocking the words "ugg" and any other widely used spam words? Obviously they arent relevant to this forum so I do not see it hurting the user base any.

TypeYourTextHere · 12-12-2011, 10:44 AM

I am going to start collecting Quarters. After I have enough of them, I am going to fly to China and hunt me some spammers. When I find them I am going to go Charles Bronson on them.

Summer · 12-12-2011, 11:08 AM

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Originally Posted by jccaclimber

Blocking "ugg" is like if I write "****". The word gets censored, but the post goes through.

Watch your mouth boy! lol No what i mean, is on my old forum it wouldnt allow posts to go through at all that had certain words.

ProudWitch · 12-12-2011, 10:12 PM

It used to be mostly early in the mornings, not any more. I just logged on cause there's not much on tv and there's more of that junk on the new posts right now. Don't we have anyone who can try to protect this forum from that scum during regular hours?

susankat · 12-12-2011, 10:39 PM

It's all been taken care off, I was on here just a little while ago and got rid of some.

jrman83 · 12-13-2011, 04:24 AM

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Originally Posted by TypeYourTextHere

I am sure that many of you guys have seen my rant posts about all the freaking spammers. I was thinking about it and I came up with a possible solution to help curb/eliminate these annoying posts by implementing an account approval process. I have been on some forums that use this to do exactly this. It is kind of annoying for the users who want to ask questions, but there are mods on most of the time anyway. What do you think about this and is it possible with this forum?

Those that work nights will see more spam than most people.

11-26-2011, 09:13 AM	#1 (permalink)
TypeYourTextHere TypeYourTextHere's Photo Gallery Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 563 Location: Olathe, KS Feedback: 0 / 0% Said "Welcome to Aquarium Forum" 40 Times Said "Thanks" 23 Times Was Thanked 149 Times in 146 Posts	Mandatory New Account Aproval I am sure that many of you guys have seen my rant posts about all the freaking spammers. I was thinking about it and I came up with a possible solution to help curb/eliminate these annoying posts by implementing an account approval process. I have been on some forums that use this to do exactly this. It is kind of annoying for the users who want to ask questions, but there are mods on most of the time anyway. What do you think about this and is it possible with this forum? __________________ 75 Gallon Planted

11-26-2011, 10:01 AM	#2 (permalink)
Summer Susan and Bev's protégé Summer's Photo Gallery Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 2,502 Name: Summer Location: Pennsylvania My location Feedback: 11 / 100% Said "Welcome to Aquarium Forum" 1,136 Times Said "Thanks" 168 Times Was Thanked 571 Times in 552 Posts	Re: Mandatory New Account Aproval There are a lot of new signups each day here, and it's not always that easy to tell who is a spammer, unless they have something obvious in their username/email address. I used to run a forum and we did try this, and we were a much smaller forum. We found pretty quickly that if you made someone wait for approval then the chances of them coming back and posting depleted pretty rapidly. I know the spam is annoying but I think our mods do a good job of catching the posts pretty quickly, and those of us who have been here for even a short while can pick out the spam posts and ignore them without much trouble... Just my thoughts on the matter. __________________ "Being ignorant is not so much a Shame, as being unwilling to learn".-- Benjamin Franklin

12-05-2011, 12:17 AM	#4 (permalink)
FishFlow FishFlow's Photo Gallery Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 371 Location: California Feedback: 4 / 100% Said "Welcome to Aquarium Forum" 14 Times Said "Thanks" 5 Times Was Thanked 57 Times in 55 Posts	Re: Mandatory New Account Aproval Funny, i'm on here multiple times daily, for about 2 months and have yet to see a spam thread. Lol, maybe i'm in chat too much. x2 with summer, i would not have stuck around waiting for membership to be approved not when there are hundreds of other forums. __________________ 100 Dirt + Stuff. To be Angel baby tank. 37 Planted. http://www.aquariumforum.com/f45/pla...nal-20774.html 29 Tall community tank. 5+ Years up and running. 15 Soon to be RCS tank.

12-10-2011, 07:39 AM	#5 (permalink)
ProudWitch Join Date: Dec 2011 Posts: 37 Feedback: 0 / 0% Said "Welcome to Aquarium Forum" 2 Times Said "Thanks" 3 Times Was Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: Mandatory New Account Aproval I log on here in the mornings and read the new post section the way some people read their morning paper and the amount of spam is getting out of hand.This morning there was over 130 spam posts just in the 1st 6 pages. I didn't even bother going on to the next pages to read any more.Do people get paid to post this kind of spam and clog up forums?

12-10-2011, 07:13 PM	#7 (permalink)
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12-11-2011, 12:04 PM	#9 (permalink)
ProudWitch Join Date: Dec 2011 Posts: 37 Feedback: 0 / 0% Said "Welcome to Aquarium Forum" 2 Times Said "Thanks" 3 Times Was Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: Mandatory New Account Aproval It was just a thought I had that someone must be getting paid to doing those posts. Otherwise why spend all that time typing them up?If not, some people must be awfully bored.

12-12-2011, 02:15 AM	#11 (permalink)
ProudWitch Join Date: Dec 2011 Posts: 37 Feedback: 0 / 0% Said "Welcome to Aquarium Forum" 2 Times Said "Thanks" 3 Times Was Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: Mandatory New Account Aproval It's hard to tell what goes on in the minds of fools who do stuff like clogging up forums with spam. I used to enjoy having a cup of coffee and reading the new posts in the mornings cause I wake up really early. Don't enjoy having to scroll down 10 spam posts to read 1 aquarium post, but it's getting that bad. I don't know if there is an effective way to prevent them or to block them once they've been caught.

12-12-2011, 05:31 AM	#12 (permalink)
majerah1 Wild betta tamer majerah1's Photo Gallery Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 4,290 Name: Beverly D Fincannon Location: Easley,SC My location Feedback: 13 / 100% Said "Welcome to Aquarium Forum" 961 Times Said "Thanks" 546 Times Was Thanked 1,126 Times in 1,011 Posts	Re: Mandatory New Account Aproval IP's.But nowadays its not hard to mask or even change yours. __________________ http://bountifulbettas.blogspot.com/ "Come to the dark side....we have cookies...and filters/heaters/and water changes!"

12-12-2011, 07:42 AM	#13 (permalink)
Summer Susan and Bev's protégé Summer's Photo Gallery Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 2,502 Name: Summer Location: Pennsylvania My location Feedback: 11 / 100% Said "Welcome to Aquarium Forum" 1,136 Times Said "Thanks" 168 Times Was Thanked 571 Times in 552 Posts	Re: Mandatory New Account Aproval Pulling from experience running a forum in the past, this wont fix the whole problem but may cut it down...there should be an option to block certain words from being used on the forum....how about blocking the words "ugg" and any other widely used spam words? Obviously they arent relevant to this forum so I do not see it hurting the user base any. __________________ "Being ignorant is not so much a Shame, as being unwilling to learn".-- Benjamin Franklin

12-12-2011, 10:44 AM	#14 (permalink)
TypeYourTextHere TypeYourTextHere's Photo Gallery Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 563 Location: Olathe, KS Feedback: 0 / 0% Said "Welcome to Aquarium Forum" 40 Times Said "Thanks" 23 Times Was Thanked 149 Times in 146 Posts	Re: Mandatory New Account Aproval I am going to start collecting Quarters. After I have enough of them, I am going to fly to China and hunt me some spammers. When I find them I am going to go Charles Bronson on them. __________________ 75 Gallon Planted

12-12-2011, 10:12 PM	#16 (permalink)
ProudWitch Join Date: Dec 2011 Posts: 37 Feedback: 0 / 0% Said "Welcome to Aquarium Forum" 2 Times Said "Thanks" 3 Times Was Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: Mandatory New Account Aproval It used to be mostly early in the mornings, not any more. I just logged on cause there's not much on tv and there's more of that junk on the new posts right now. Don't we have anyone who can try to protect this forum from that scum during regular hours?

12-12-2011, 10:39 PM	#17 (permalink)
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