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User Registration - RF Cafe Forums
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Kirt Blattenberger
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Post subject: User Registration
Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 10:28 pm
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Joined: Sun Aug 03, 2003
2:02 pm Posts: 653 Location: Erie, PA
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Greetings: (Updated July 10, 2007) User registration
has been turned on in order to minimize the amount
of trash postings. It is amazing the even with the
visual code confirmation enabled, automated software
crawling the Web was able to register and post.
A search on the phpBB forum website turned up a
simple but elegant solution: Ask a simple question
that requires human intervention, and reject registration
if the answer is wrong. In the case of RF Cafe,
I ask for the solution to an addition problem. From
what I can tell, in the three months that it has
been in use, maybe one trash registration has been
made. I have had to delete a couple posts due to
irrelevance, but otherwise it has been great!
Please send me an e-mail if you have any problems
with registration. Thanks for your participation.
- Kirt Blattenberger
***** Below is the original
post **** Due to the vastly increased number
of spammer registrations being encountered, beginning
now I will automatically delete all registrations
with the following characteristics: * Whenever
the "Location" field listed in registration is US,
USA, or Russia.
These are almost always
spam registrants. Please do not even bother to
fill in the "Location" field.* Any
registration that has not been confirmed via e-mail
within one week. * Any registration that
looks suspicious to me.
Please be sure to
use a sensible alias as a screen name, and be
sure to fill in the "Occupation" or "Interest" fields
with meaningful descriptions.I apologize
for the inconvenience to honest users, but this
process help keep the garbage from ruining everyone
else's experience.
_________________ - Kirt Blattenberger
RF Cafe Progenitor & Webmaster
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jives |
Post subject:
Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 7:02 pm
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Joined: Thu Jul 28, 2005
6:18 pm Posts: 7 |
Kirt, Are you only deleting new registrations
or any registration not in compliance? Just wondering
if I need to update my info.
Thanks, Jason
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Kirt Blattenberger
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Post subject:
Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 8:21 pm
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Joined: Sun Aug 03, 2003
2:02 pm Posts: 653 Location: Erie, PA
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jives wrote:
Kirt, Are you only deleting new registrations
or any registration not in compliance? Just
wondering if I need to update my info.
Greetings Jives: The new rules only
apply to new registrations, so you do not have to
bother changing your current information. Thanks
for asking. It is amazing how much spam is
posted or attempted to be posted. You probably noticed
that there were two trash posts just below yours.
I go through at least 3-4 times a day deleting bogus
users and posts, and still it continues.
In trying to foster more forum participation, for
a long time I did not require registration confirmation.
However, the amount of spam grew to sometimes 50
per day. It was not uncommon for me to spend half
an hour just deleting posts. For a long time the
visual confirmation kept the trash out, but then
the spammers got by that, so I instituted the e-mail
confirmation. That worked for a long time, but now
the spammers must have a staff of desparate drug
addicts and other assorted scum bags that sit at
computers and infiltrate forums all day and night.
Most of the IP addresses are from Denmark, Russia,
China, Korea, and the Philippines. The list correlates
pretty closely to the widely published list of largest
abuser countries. It says a lot about the governments
of those countries for allowing it. The next
step will be to require new users to e-mail me directly
and I will set up an account for them. Some of the
other large forums have been doing that for a long
time (e.g., eng-tips.com). As with other
forms of terrorism, it is infuriating that the decent
people of the world let this continue. I have said
before and continue to say that I totally advocate
what the people in Russian did to that one super
spammer - turned off his switch with a hammer to
the head.
_________________ - Kirt Blattenberger
RF Cafe Progenitor & Webmaster
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Kirt Blattenberger
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Post subject: Re: User Registration
Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2010 7:08 pm
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Site Admin |
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Joined: Sun Aug 03, 2003
2:02 pm Posts: 653 Location: Erie, PA
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Greetings:
Today, August 8, 2010, I changed
the new user registration settings so that confirmation
is sent directly to me for validating. This will
hopefully put an end to the spammers.
This
means that it might be a couple hours until you
are able to post to the forum while you wait for
me to activate your registration.
Keeping
the garbage off the forums will make it a better
experience for everyone.
Thanks for your
patience.
_________________ - Kirt Blattenberger
RF Cafe Progenitor & Webmaster
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Posted 11/12/2012
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