 ltlfoote wrote:
wildcat dude wrote:
What worked for us, is this feature.
Administrator Member Activation |
wildcat dude - where in the admin is this feature? It sounds like what I need!
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Sorry, I seldom come here. Its under Email Settings, at the bottom of that page you'll see this
Administrator Member Activation
New members will not be able to use their account till the admin activates their membership. An activation email will be sent to the forum email address entered above.
Just select Yes then it'll send you an email with the user's IP, email
address and userid with a link to activate. We don't until we've checked the IP address and research their userid and email address. If we find they posted content which is not in keeping with our standards, we don't allow them or block them. We don't bother with email blocking, its useless in our opinion. IP blocking isn't much better as it won't block China spammers from 110.80.0.0/13 range, you have to do each one like 110.80.*.* through 110.87.*.* which is a more tedious operation. (and still working on it)
Unfortunately I don't have access to the web server and we don't have access to the routers (where I'd prefer to just block whole countries from even looking). I'm just the forum admin and not the person who installs/moves the database. But I live with it.
But for now this has STOPPED 100% of spammers in their tracks and 97% of undesirables. You'll still get the occasional ones that don't have family values. (as we do have kids that read our forums and don't allow inappropriate langauge (and too much work to put ALL that junk in a bad word filter) 
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