NES WORLD Forum - Print Page

NES WORLD Forum
https://www.nesworld.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl Other Boards >> Site News >> Member cleanup https://www.nesworld.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1326017227 Message started by Martin on 08. Jan 2012 at 10:07

Title: Member cleanup
Post by Martin on 08. Jan 2012 at 10:07

Due to the massive addition of spam accounts lately the requirements to register has been changed, it's now a bit harder.

Also, I've begun cleaning out users who haven't posted here (ever), so start posting or your account will gone too in the spam account clean out...

Over the past few week the site has grown from roughly 2800 members to 8000, that's a lot of cleaning to do, time I could've used to make new material for the site :-(

Also, all new member accounts are approved by me before you're able to post or even finish registering...

Title: Re: Member cleanup
Post by Martin on 10. Jan 2012 at 20:12

Tweaked the registration process with another check.... damn these register bots have kept me busy the past few days...

Title: Re: Member cleanup
Post by Martin on 10. Jan 2012 at 22:12

Looks like the spam bots are defeated for now.... yay!

Title: Re: Member cleanup
Post by Ultra64 on 05. Feb 2012 at 01:10

Victory! but damn that is crazy how the numbers grew that high!

Title: Re: Member cleanup
Post by Martin on 05. Feb 2012 at 09:33

yeah, it must've been some script hammering the forum, an extra feature for new registrations solved it :-)

Title: Re: Member cleanup
Post by Martin on 08. Feb 2013 at 12:27

Another member cleanup has been carried out... removing well over 2000 accounts with no posts and no activity for quite some time.

Oh well :-)

Title: Re: Member cleanup
Post by Martin on 17. Feb 2013 at 10:58

I have enabled membership approvement simply because of they many many spam accounts being created for no obvious reason.

Sorry for the inconvenience that your account isn't approved instantly :-(

Title: Re: Member cleanup
Post by dude on 18. Feb 2013 at 19:51

Good good, haven't been here in a while but cleaning the bots are a pain.

Title: Re: Member cleanup
Post by johnf on 12. Jul 2013 at 16:15

always good to have a bit of a cleaning every so often ....

Title: Re: Member cleanup
Post by johnf on 12. Jul 2013 at 16:15

also did you get my message that i have sent you ... about the problem that im having at the moment .....??? :(