E-mail Validation

[Colje]

Due to the amount of new users signing up to the forums being bots, I am thinking of making it e-mail validation before you can post anything. If you strongly oppose this idea, please post why you oppose it so strongly in this thread.
Vote here http://www.baka-updates.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3974
Post your reasons of why or why not we should have e-mail validation.

[dagger906]

What are those bots supposed to accomplish anyway? The few bot posts I saw seems pretty random.

And yeah, we should have email validation. All the other forums do it, so it's reasonable.

[Cataulin]

Also like Singzy said at a specific amount of posts before they can make a thread.

[KunJinky]

^ I believe that was volyund.

e-mail validation, fine, whatever.

The whole number of post count till you can make a thread, no.
It's gay like waiting periods and it's just going to litter all the other threads with the usual influx of noob questions.

[Cataulin]

^ I believe that was volyund.

e-mail validation, fine, whatever.

The whole number of post count till you can make a thread, no.
It's gay like waiting periods and it's just going to litter all the other threads with the usual influx of noob questions.

Oh. is it really that hard to post a few times tho. I mean you can use up 10 posts and then bam you can make all the threads you want.

[KunJinky]

^ I believe that was volyund.

e-mail validation, fine, whatever.

The whole number of post count till you can make a thread, no.
It's gay like waiting periods and it's just going to litter all the other threads with the usual influx of noob questions.

Oh. is it really that hard to post a few times tho. I mean you can use up 10 posts and then bam you can make all the threads you want.

There's a lot of threads from people asking dumb questions that could be answered in the FAQ or people that just want to point out a mistake in the site. They just want to have a couple of posts and leave. A smarter or lazier person would just place it in an exisiting thread instead of dealing with spamming a bunch of useless posts to get their How does I bittorents? question posted. Or you're just going to get more "bot-like" spam which the whole e-mail validation is trying to get rid of in the first place.

[Komataguri]

I say enable it


Altho it will probably not deter teh bots, Since most webforums do generally have email confirmation on by default, I'm sure the bots have some means of using that as well to continue posting.

[Cataulin]

I say enable it


Altho it will probably not deter teh bots, Since most webforums do generally have email confirmation on by default, I'm sure the bots have some means of using that as well to continue posting.

Ive seen bots go thru the email activation. in fact this bot Ive seen in several email activated forums.

[frumplstlskn]

Heh, asking people who already have accounts what they think about this. I say yes because I don't need to re-register.

[Godfather]

also make them type in letter from an image to help prevent scripted account making

[Godfather]

Why not make them ride up a mountain on a donkey while their at it.

Omg what do you care? You're already regged

[frumplstlskn]

Why not make them ride up a mountain on a donkey while their at it.

Omg what do you care? You're already regged

It seems that you perceived that in some way that it was not meant to be perceived. I don't care what you do, I just had to add in a sarcastic comment for no reason.

[Singyz]

also make them type in letter from an image to help prevent scripted account making

Even if email validation isn't used, this image to letter thing just might do the trick.

[Colje]

the image validation has been in since the beginning of the forums. its not stopping the bots

[KunJinky]

Then sadly, perhaps more banhammers and a report option (though I really don't like these).

[mrharvest]

If there's a real person registering the accounts then obviously email verification isn't going to stop them either. There's plenty of email services out there for the exact purpose of allowing you to receive the verification email and nothing else.

[Spike]

Since e-mail validations work 2 out of 5 times with me I'd normally oppose it, but since I'm already registered I really don't give a damn.

[Singyz]

Bot spotted, general anime thread: jazzking2001

[Colje]

stop turning every fucking thing into a fucking spam thread
if you don't take this seriously i'm gonna start banning people

[Godfather]

stop turning every fucking thing into a fucking spam thread
if you don't take this seriously i'm gonna start banning people

I think we should start with vlas

[Cataulin]

Im serious about the ban hammer. Id be willing to lose an avatar/post count for one.

[Komataguri]

BOT ALERT BOT ALERT


http://www.baka-updates.com/forum/profi ... ile&u=4239

[Cataulin]

BOT ALERT!!!!!!!!

http://www.baka-updates.com/forum/profi ... ile&u=4245

Ever think of just renaming teh off topic sub forum? cuz they are bots that do post in sub forums labeled "off topic" no?

[Komataguri]

http://www.baka-updates.com/forum/viewt ... highlight=



BOT ALERT

[Komataguri]

VIAGRA BOT ALERT

http://www.baka-updates.com/forum/profi ... ile&u=4252