Just a quick reminder for any user wanting to register here: once you have applied for the registration, please reply to the post in the New Members Request Validation Here thread at the top of the page. You are free to write anything, so that we make sure that you are really an user and not a spambot. Once you'll post there, we'll validate you account and you'll be able to post in the rest of the forum.
If you don't reply there, your registration request will be automatically deleted after two weeks. I'm sorry for this nuisance, but we usually receive 10-20 registration requests from spambots daily, so without this procedure it would be difficult for us to understand which request is a genuine one.
Varti
For the life of me I could not see, and cannot see, a "New Members Request Validation Here" thread. You might want to make it cleaer where it is and/or put a link to it. Or even better just have normal email regaistration that most forums have.
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New Members subforum is only visible to validating members, since we use it only for validation purposes. Once a member's registration is confirmed, it is not visible to him anymore. We might make it visible to everyone, though there'll never be any useful post there since we delete all the posts there.
A confirmation mail containing a link was always sent to every new user. Yesterday I have decided to remove it, since it was useless as an anti-spam measure: many of the spam bots recognise this mail and open the link in it automatically. This mail also made the validation procedure unnecessarily long: a new user might have to check two emails in total before he's finally registered, one with the link and another one I send manually if I see no post in the New Members thread.
I now wonder how other forums manage to block the spambots to request a new account, they probably use a much stronger captcha system than the one we use here. I'll evaluate to use a more traditional email verification once we'll have this forum's engine updated.
Varti
