Registration Change

[WingedZephyr]

Although some of you may not have been able to tell so far, the forum has had a flood of spam accounts being created lately. Many of them displaying advertising links, and some posting spam around the forum. The staff does its best to clean up these issues, but we feel some added precautions need to be put into place at the moment while we deal with the situation.

New members will now need to receive staff approval before they are allowed to post. Approval should not take more than 24 hours, and depending on the time of day, may take less than an hour. We hope this to be a temporary solution while we work out another way to keep the spammers at bay.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and we'll let you know if anything changes.

[Vee Katame: His Wolfy]

Oh thank God. I love this.

[White Wolf Guardian]

*Does a tap dance* YESSSS!

[Ares the Ram]

I approve this message a million times!

[Monster Mash]

Awesome, thanks guys.

[icy wolf]

thanks for the heads up if i see any spam report it still?

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

finally, SOME kind of action.

[icy wolf]

finally, SOME kind of action.

how bad has it been?

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

finally, SOME kind of action.

how bad has it been?

very

[Vee Katame: His Wolfy]

I'll emphasize that Shinzuu didn't mean that in a disrespectful way, meaning he didn't mean it in a way that said we hadn't been doing anything before.

And yes, icy wolf, you still need to report any spam that gets through.

[WingedZephyr]

It hasn't been anything we can't handle, just not something we want to see continue on for much longer if we can avoid it. There were very few actual posts made by the spammers before we caught them, most of the work has just been catching their accounts. Not only that, but we've only been fussing with it for a week or two. It's not like this has gone on for months.

Requiring approval for new members is not an ideal solution, as it can be a hassle for those trying to join, but it's the best solution at the moment.

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

At least we're not putting up with that bullshit from 2 years ago. Remember the douche that posted a ton of crazy pics and making a 15-page spam say "fag" over and over again? I hated that day.

[WingedZephyr]

I'd rather not start a discussion about trollings in the past.

[icy wolf]

k ill report any spam i see

[Tweak]

As a result of the rejections I have been able to conduct research and found that many of those spam accounts registering are in fact already reported in a "Stop Forum Spam" database.

As a result forum registrations are now enabled for immediate registration and all registrations are checked against this database and flagged if they match. This should hopefully cut down on the spam accounts with no interaction from the staff. Any that do slip past can be reported to the database and aid other forum administrators in battling their own spam.

Should too many accounts get through we will once again raise the registration checks but hopefully this latest addition will stop the majority.