Hi,
I switched to manual activation of users to see if that breaks the spamming
bots.
Since we have around 400 inactive users on the forum, I was wondering if we
can just delete those since they haven't ever responded to the activation
email that was sent to them?
Some are inactive from 2006. If
Vlad, it looks like every single admin is now getting an email any time
someone signs up on the forums. Any way to restrict that to a subset?
Although, I thought we had decided to allow automatic registration, but
restrict them until we've approved one of their posts. Any reason for
the switch
I switched it back since there's no way I can tune it to send those
requests to only a subset of forum moderators.
The manual activation was a good experiment because I was able to cut most
of those users before they posted their junk.
It's very easy to spot the spammer emails since some of them a