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A Change to User Registration
« on: September 28 2005, 08:39 pm »
Due to recent events, and after discussing this with Little Wolf.

User registration now requires admin approval.
You will be sent a e-mail when your account has been approved.

This hopefully have little effect on our community.

The decision wasn't reached lightly, and we feel its in the community's best interest.

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Re: A Change to User Registration
« Reply #1 on: September 29 2005, 12:38 am »
I know it feels like there's no love or trust when you sign up for a forum or message board, then have to wait to be approved for it however in the long run it's for the best. The integrity of the forum needs to be maintained and all it takes is a handful of souls to disrupt what is to me a great community of people here.

I fully support the decision of the administration 100% :)

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Re: A Change to User Registration
« Reply #2 on: September 29 2005, 04:19 am »
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I know it feels like there's no love or trust when you sign up for a forum or message board, then have to wait to be approved for it however in the long run it's for the best.

I think it's a great idea.
It shows whoever is signing up that they are joining a serious community, one where the administration and members want to do their best to keep this a wonderful place to come.  :keke:
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Re: A Change to User Registration
« Reply #3 on: September 29 2005, 06:15 am »
I completely agree with this as well. It has angered me that our happy little community is constantly being disrupted, and this is a very good idea! Hopefully this will decrease, and eventually get rid of all the spammers.

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Re: A Change to User Registration
« Reply #4 on: September 29 2005, 09:07 am »
Me too, it shows that we are aware of those nasty buggers who liked to disrupt peace. I have the full support of this notion. Hopefully it will make a huge difference.
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Re: A Change to User Registration
« Reply #5 on: September 29 2005, 11:10 am »
OK, That's good.

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Re: A Change to User Registration
« Reply #6 on: September 30 2005, 09:56 am »
I agree with this idea as well. This is good because it could prevent nasty trolls from spamming this precious board and the community. I do not want to see CW go through what other message boards I go have been through.

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Re: A Change to User Registration
« Reply #7 on: September 30 2005, 07:06 pm »
but when the user first register.. how will you know if that person is going to be a forum trasher? they can change their nicks when registering..

nevertheless, i support this decision and hope this method will keep our 'little' forum more peaceful and nice.. :okay:


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Re: A Change to User Registration
« Reply #8 on: September 30 2005, 09:05 pm »
I support it as well.


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Re: A Change to User Registration
« Reply #9 on: October 01 2005, 08:30 am »
I support the decision. It's a great idea.
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Re: A Change to User Registration
« Reply #10 on: October 08 2005, 12:33 am »
***but when the user first register.. how will you know if that person is going to be a forum trasher? they can change their nicks when registering..***
I was wondering the very same thing. and yes I do thing its a good idea.
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Re: A Change to User Registration
« Reply #11 on: October 09 2005, 01:54 pm »
I also fully support this new idea.  I have seen too many forums where people join just to make trouble.  I suppose that as a way to regulate it, the IPs of troublemakers could be recorded.  It might be troublesome, but a ban list for bad IPs could be started.  I hope my idea is helpful.   :keke:

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Re: A Change to User Registration
« Reply #12 on: October 11 2005, 03:33 am »
but when the user first register.. how will you know if that person is going to be a forum trasher? they can change their nicks when registering..

We have sources/ways to find that out. :D

I suppose that as a way to regulate it, the IPs of troublemakers could be recorded.  It might be troublesome, but a ban list for bad IPs could be started.  I hope my idea is helpful.   :keke:

Most users' IPs are dynamic so having a ban list wouldn't be really that helpful but thanks anyway for the concern. The mods and admins are doing their best to keep the forum in order. :)

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Re: A Change to User Registration
« Reply #13 on: October 11 2005, 05:29 am »
As an admin for another SMF board, I pretty much know what Little Wolf means by "sources" but I'm not at liberty to divulge that information, sorry...   :D

That is, of course, if the "type of sources" he's talking about is what I'm thinking...  I might just be wrong completely  :heh:

But, I support this all the way... keep those types off the board and this board will remain very fun :keke:
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Re: A Change to User Registration
« Reply #14 on: October 18 2005, 11:24 pm »
I think this is for the best

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Re: A Change to User Registration
« Reply #15 on: October 21 2005, 09:35 am »
I think it's a good idea to keep spammers and the like off the forums, especially those types of people who might have IPs that are difficult to ban or whatever and I'm in complete support of it, but I have a question about this.  I know you'll receieve an email when your account has been approved, but could you also possibly send an email if your account isn't approved and how long would the approval typically take?  It's just that I've tried to join a forum that required your account to be approved before and I never got any email that said it was approved and I never understood why either, because I would never do anything to break the rules of the site and I hate spamming and trolls as much as the next person does.  And if the approving of an account will take a while, some people might give up waiting for it and completely forget about this site wondering if their account was ever approved, so I think it would be good to send people a notice letting them know their account wasn't approved and maybe explain to them why, so that they don't accuse us of being a bunch of jerks when we aren't because their account wasn't approved.
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Re: A Change to User Registration
« Reply #16 on: October 21 2005, 10:19 am »
The Administration checks in here daily (today's members confirms this) so I'm confident that they check registrations on a daily basis so it shouldn't be too much of a worry. It's a shame this system was implemented because of one idiot (won't name him or the 14 user-names he uses) but if it keeps the peace here, I'm in full support of it :)

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Re: A Change to User Registration
« Reply #17 on: November 24 2005, 12:15 am »
okie! i'm all up for this idea.... Arcademan/PixieP  who was that guy?? 0.0  i'm really curious...


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Re: A Change to User Registration
« Reply #18 on: November 24 2005, 12:26 am »
okie! i'm all up for this idea.... Arcademan/PixieP who was that guy?? 0.0 i'm really curious...

He is a person we don't speak of around here who likes to create multiple accounts since each one he uses gets banned. I called him out somewhere else and he went ballistic, calling me every name in the book and threatening me. Heh. Like his threats mean anything to me. That's all you need to know.

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Re: A Change to User Registration
« Reply #19 on: December 11 2005, 05:52 am »
i like the idea too!!! with this the fans will feel that this is a serious thing
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Re: A Change to User Registration
« Reply #20 on: January 31 2006, 11:58 am »
I'm glad that you all are making a change in administration. It's a great idea. It will help keep this board clean. Nice idea!

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Re: A Change to User Registration
« Reply #21 on: February 01 2006, 04:28 am »
I don't see how pending a member will help prevent spamming if they never signed up on the board unless they're just trying to sign up again for some reason when they were banned.

A lot of you are saying how "serious" we should be about this message board. We do need to abide by the rules, but don't forget, message boards are supposed to be fun communities too, that's the point of them. Message Boards aren't supposed to be taken seriously. At least, not the way you guys are putting it. If we all took message boards too seriously, then no one would want to join.
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Re: A Change to User Registration
« Reply #22 on: February 06 2006, 02:59 am »
A lot of you are saying how "serious" we should be about this message board. We do need to abide by the rules, but don't forget, message boards are supposed to be fun communities too, that's the point of them. Message Boards aren't supposed to be taken seriously. At least, not the way you guys are putting it. If we all took message boards too seriously, then no one would want to join.
 

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Re: A Change to User Registration
« Reply #23 on: February 06 2006, 03:13 am »
I don't see how pending a member will help prevent spamming if they never signed up on the board unless they're just trying to sign up again for some reason when they were banned.

A lot of you are saying how "serious" we should be about this message board. We do need to abide by the rules, but don't forget, message boards are supposed to be fun communities too, that's the point of them. Message Boards aren't supposed to be taken seriously. At least, not the way you guys are putting it. If we all took message boards too seriously, then no one would want to join.

Rules are there for a reason...not to cut down on fun but to assure that fun won't be ruined by those who feel otherwise. I don't think the rules here are strict and if people felt otherwise, we wouldn't have well over 1,000 members join in less than a year so somebody's doing something right.

If you think it's 'too serious' here then all you have to do is not post here anymore. Not being mean about it...being real about it :wink:

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Re: A Change to User Registration
« Reply #24 on: March 19 2006, 02:27 am »
I think this is an awesome policy. I'm a newb, and my registration had to be approved. I remember thinking, "Hey, that's awesome. They really care about their forums to do something like that." Thumbs up.
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Re: A Change to User Registration
« Reply #25 on: March 19 2006, 07:11 am »
I'm okay with it. It's a good way to assure that there's no spammers who ruins the forums. ^__^

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Re: A Change to User Registration
« Reply #26 on: March 19 2006, 09:52 am »
I think this is an awesome policy. I'm a newb, and my registration had to be approved. I remember thinking, "Hey, that's awesome. They really care about their forums to do something like that." Thumbs up.

Thanks for understanding. One of the reasons behind it was when somebody was banned from here, they kept using different user-names to get back on. We try our best to keep things fun and flowing here :)

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