New user restrictions
Posted by Connor Boyack on May 31st, 2007
Okay, so the spam CATPCHA didn’t work. Turns out that the spammers are real people. Some people have far too much time on their hands…
So now, the CAPTCHA has been removed and new users will not have their posts published until I approve them. So when a new user joins up, they may still enter a submission, but that submission will not appear on the site until I manually review it and give it the okay.
Once a new user has an approved post, they may post freely.
Let’s hope this clears up the garbage! Thanks to all for their patience, suggestions, and feedback. Sustain away!
I still like the reCAPTCHA concept… I’m a firm believer in layers of protection. But the first-post ( or posts ) approval seems like a perfect way of handling it.
If both were implemented together, we’d have a user-friendly way of handling this, and the reCAPTCHA would keep the spam bots from filling your approval queue.
Left by Silus Grok on May 31st, 2007
I think the first post policy is a good policy, but you shouldn’t make it public; remove this post in other words
Otherwise spammers can discover they can play nice once, just get into the henhouse.
Left by TedB on June 12th, 2007