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 Post subject: To stop spammers before they ruin the board
PostPosted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 5:07 am 
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Im pretty sure there is a option that the administrator can select that makes the person who signs up on the forum have to go into his email to activate his membership. reason im saying this because of profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=133
so if you make people activate their accounts by email (which im pretty sure the automated spammers can't activate, because its usually a fake email) then it will keep this forum clean

just a suggestion, peace


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PostPosted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 11:16 pm 
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Thanks for the suggestion. Email validation is now needed when registering.


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PostPosted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 5:16 pm 
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I noticed spammers are still signing up to promote their websites in the memberlist. I therefor (temporarily) disabled the memberlist since it's probably not used anyway. (let me know if I'm wrong)


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PostPosted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 5:32 pm 
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damn, i havent seen any spammers but i could just be blind
yeah i think taking off the memberslist could help


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PostPosted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 5:45 am 
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keesj wrote:
I therefor (temporarily) disabled the memberlist since it's probably not used anyway. (let me know if I'm wrong)



well i occasionally use it to compare post count, but i could live without it 8)


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