2017-08-18, 06:12 PM
Hello, I recently had my forum spammed and spent 2 days cleaning up the huge mess,
so now I require moderator approval of new registrations.
However, the ones I now get are appear to mostly be manual spammers from the email addresses they are using compared to the username they signup with. My forum is very lightly used, so I don't want to turn away legit signups.
What I would like is to have a question asked to the registration, and their answer passed to the moderator, so I can better decide whether they are a spammer or not. I've seen this is other forums I signed up on, but did not see a way to do it with MyBB 1.8.
What I mean is, a question like "Why do you like fishing" or "Tell me why you want to join a fishing forum" Tell me what kind of bait works best for Trout?", that kind of question and their answers, so I can easily determine someone who is an actual person interested in the content of the forum.
A simple question and answer like is currently supported is not enough.
so now I require moderator approval of new registrations.
However, the ones I now get are appear to mostly be manual spammers from the email addresses they are using compared to the username they signup with. My forum is very lightly used, so I don't want to turn away legit signups.
What I would like is to have a question asked to the registration, and their answer passed to the moderator, so I can better decide whether they are a spammer or not. I've seen this is other forums I signed up on, but did not see a way to do it with MyBB 1.8.
What I mean is, a question like "Why do you like fishing" or "Tell me why you want to join a fishing forum" Tell me what kind of bait works best for Trout?", that kind of question and their answers, so I can easily determine someone who is an actual person interested in the content of the forum.
A simple question and answer like is currently supported is not enough.