2014-07-07, 09:01 PM
Due to the size and popularity of my board, I have to use admin approval for registration to help keep the trolls out. With the volume of registrations it can become quite tedious.
1) Send confirmation email after somebody is approved (I use a plugin to do this right now).
2) Show intelligent information about the person attempting to register to see if they are a troll ... including:
- Other users who have posted from the IP address they have used to register
- Whois on their IP to show country of origin and ISP (this should help catch proxies and spammers)
3) Verification of registration by text message. This is the ultimate troll stopper. Google now uses text message to verify GMail accounts and it dramatically reduced abuse. There are tons of providers who do SMS messages and provide an API. Just Google "text message api". Have it track numbers used and allow no more than one registration per cell phone number.
1) Send confirmation email after somebody is approved (I use a plugin to do this right now).
2) Show intelligent information about the person attempting to register to see if they are a troll ... including:
- Other users who have posted from the IP address they have used to register
- Whois on their IP to show country of origin and ISP (this should help catch proxies and spammers)
3) Verification of registration by text message. This is the ultimate troll stopper. Google now uses text message to verify GMail accounts and it dramatically reduced abuse. There are tons of providers who do SMS messages and provide an API. Just Google "text message api". Have it track numbers used and allow no more than one registration per cell phone number.