Forum: Anonymous posting disabled

[Kornel Kisielewicz]

Okay, Joseph asked me to disallow anonymous posting, and I did it ;-). Word of notice tough -- on the DoomRL forum I noticed that a lot of spambots seeing that they cant post on the forum register on it. Fortunately the e-mail validation system prevents them from posting. The downside is that a lot of virtual spambot users are created. On the DoomRL forum I solve this by regulary deleting users that have a post and topic count of zero. I will use the same method here, I hope that nobody minds .

BTW, Joseph, I counted on your reply in the following topic...:
http://ghforum.chaosforge.org/index.php?action=vth read&forum=5&topic=156

[macksting]

Do you know if there's a way to set a machine up to delete the accounts automatically? Would've been nice to have while I was still administrating the Wintercomic forums.

[Tung Nguyen]

What about disabling URL posting for members with less than 5-10 posts? If somebody attempts to, then simply error out with a kind message saying that they need "x" number of posts before they're able to link to stuff.

Also, how to ward off spambots... use a trap!

http://www.neilgunton.com/doc/spambot_trap

[Joseph Hewitt]

Thanks for making the change.

Quoting: Kornel Kisielewicz

BTW, Joseph, I counted on your reply in the following topic...:

Oops. Sorry... I think I'd rather leave the main GearHead site at roguelikedevelopment for now; the next time the main GearHead page moves I'd like it to be to a domain I've registered myself. If you could work on the webpage sometime, though, that would be great.

I think your idea for the guide is good- it may be a bit big for a single page, but even if it's split over five or so pages (divided by subject) that wouldn't be hard to put together into a downloadable file.

[Kornel Kisielewicz]

Quoting: macksting

Do you know if there's a way to set a machine up to delete the accounts automatically? Would've been nice to have while I was still administrating the Wintercomic forums.

Yes, but it would be done best with a cron-job and the current server doesn't support that :/.

Quoting: Tung Nguyen

What about disabling URL posting for members with less than 5-10 posts? If somebody attempts to, then simply error out with a kind message saying that they need "x" number of posts before they're able to link to stuff.

Not needed. Once e-mail confirmation is up, the amount of spammers is practically zero.

Quoting: Joseph Hewitt

I think I'd rather leave the main GearHead site at roguelikedevelopment for now; the next time the main GearHead page moves I'd like it to be to a domain I've registered myself.

Then do it ASAP . You can register the domain now (it's not expensive), and in two weeks, when I'll have my server, we'll point the DNSes of your domain to a site on chaosforge -- the good thing then will be that you will not need to advertise namechanges when the underlying server will be changed.