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Account activation questions

 
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Hi all,

i would like to have another option for user account activation: "Admin activation".

We, at our (still phpBB) powered forum use this "weapon" against spammers.

phpBB offers "User activation" (email verification) OR "Admin activation" (human forum admin) -- exclusive OR.

This puts a lot of work on fourm admin shoulders, since it have to review those spam accounts too, that would be filtered if email activation is used. As our experience shows, the email verification method ONLY is not enough.

Could this just be another ON/OFF operation? Something like this:

Enable Captcha during registration -- ON/OFF
Enable registration of new users -- ON/OFF
Requires user to authenticate email -- ON/OFF
Requires admin to activate new users -- ON/OFF

So, if all four is active, admin should handle only registrations that already have validated emails....

And one more thing: a BIG +1 for captcha per post option.

~t~
[originally posted on jforum.net by cstamas]
 
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