Midnight Mansion Forums - New members have to log in at least once the first month after they register

brell YaBB Administrator Offline Posts: 1792 Moita, Portugal Gender:	Re: New members have to log in at least once the first month after they register Reply #10 - 01.12.2010 at 19:43:49 The removal of those newbies, that registered in September and October but never logged in will start today. DONE!
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brell YaBB Administrator Offline Posts: 1792 Moita, Portugal Gender:	Re: New members have to log in at least once the first month after they register Reply #11 - 03.12.2010 at 03:24:36 This will be repeated monthly from now on. We will remove the November trolls after one month.
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Reply #12 - 03.12.2010 at 06:41:19

Have you considered using something like Captcha - I think there's a YABB mod for it, that generates an image with letters/numbers, that users have to extract and add as part of registration to make it more difficult for spam bots to register?

Something like this could still be defeated, but still - it's something...

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brell YaBB Administrator Offline Posts: 1792 Moita, Portugal Gender:	Re: New members have to log in at least once the first month after they register Reply #13 - 03.12.2010 at 19:14:24 Thank you for this information. I thought this was a part of the forumsoftware and since it is not included in YABB I thought it was unavailable. We will certainly check this.
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brell YaBB Administrator Offline Posts: 1792 Moita, Portugal Gender:	Re: New members have to log in at least once the first month after they register Reply #14 - 03.12.2010 at 19:30:02 Found it! It was there all the time, just located where we, the admins, haven't looked for it. I have activated it so from now on we should be more or less hacker-free.
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Reply #15 - 03.12.2010 at 20:37:48

Hopefully, this will make a little difference, even if it only slows the rate of growth for these type of accounts. Unfortunately, this whole thing is kind of like an arms race. As tools are developed to defend against spam bots, other tools are created to defeat these defenses.

It's a real shame that things like this are necessary.

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Semi-Native YaBB Administrator Offline Posts: 1429 Orlando, FL USA Gender:	Re: New members have to log in at least once the first month after they register Reply #16 - 03.12.2010 at 20:56:56 Thanks, Rob! brell, where did you find it?
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brell YaBB Administrator Offline Posts: 1792 Moita, Portugal Gender:	Re: New members have to log in at least once the first month after they register Reply #17 - 03.12.2010 at 23:05:02 Security settings. Why didn't we look?
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Semi-Native YaBB Administrator Offline Posts: 1429 Orlando, FL USA Gender:	Re: New members have to log in at least once the first month after they register Reply #18 - 03.12.2010 at 23:21:01 I thought I did.
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brell YaBB Administrator Offline Posts: 1792 Moita, Portugal Gender:	Re: New members have to log in at least once the first month after they register Reply #19 - 04.12.2010 at 00:44:46
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