11-27-2016, 07:11 PM
Hi guys
It's not as if any new member is let through automatically. The system checks every new registration by IP, email address and username against the StopForumSpam.com database. If the values there reach a certain threshold, the registration is blocked. From the logs I see that's about half a dozen registration attempts every day. I've lowered the threshold today by a third to see if that helps. Apart from that, every new member has to answer both a Captcha (the letters-numbers gobbledygook) and a Security question related to the Roman army. Obviously the latter could be made very difficult, but we do want to let new interested members in...
There is no harm in opening spam posts, nor is there a benefit to them. Just report them when you see 'em and we'll do our best to get rid of such as come by.
It's not as if any new member is let through automatically. The system checks every new registration by IP, email address and username against the StopForumSpam.com database. If the values there reach a certain threshold, the registration is blocked. From the logs I see that's about half a dozen registration attempts every day. I've lowered the threshold today by a third to see if that helps. Apart from that, every new member has to answer both a Captcha (the letters-numbers gobbledygook) and a Security question related to the Roman army. Obviously the latter could be made very difficult, but we do want to let new interested members in...
There is no harm in opening spam posts, nor is there a benefit to them. Just report them when you see 'em and we'll do our best to get rid of such as come by.