How do we wanna do registration now?

[Proots]

Jesus Christ, couldn't you have left your bullshit over at Zoklet? Listen up faggots, i'd be happy to engage you in a useless discussion about Zoklet and totse and whatever the fuck is on your mind. But let's keep this topic about the sign up process now shall we?

You already ruined one website people liked posting on. Excuse us if we don't wish for the same thing to happen to this one.

[DaGuru]

Ain't it funny how he is STILL trying to tell people to "keep it on topic". He really and truly just can NOT help himself. Poor little former moderator is gonna be eaten alive, he's scared shitless and reaching for his gun....yet he still forgets he is shooting blanks over here.

Hey Psychomanthis....why not crawl back to Zoklet and go moderate something why you still have the chance. Clearly you need the fix, and your stash is about to run out forever.  ELL OH FUCKIN ELL @ you.

[-SpectraL]

We've been exactly on topic with all our comments. This retard makes a retarded suggestion about the registration process and we make a suggestion about how he should shut the fuck up about suggestions about the registration process and also include with our reasons why we disagree with his proven retarded suggestions. That's totally on topic, whether anybody likes it or not.

[fanglekai]

I voted for open registration.

[Iudicium Infernalum]

Haters gonna' hate.

[equanimity]

Make it admin/mod approval only.

How would we know what are good users and what aren't though?

You wouldn't. Don't listen to that retard. He's the one who got zok to setup mod/admin approvals for new signups, which basically killed any chance of the forum's expansion.

Nope. That was out of my control. However you can easily tell the ad spammers by there username which is a bunch of gibberish, and check IP's and sign up emails for alts.

Anyway, you'd need someone dedicated to the approval process as not to stifle growth as spectral mentioned. If you have a guy or two looking at registrations you could cover it. This is how it went down at Zoklet and accounts got approved in a day or two and all the ad spammers were kept out.

Don't do this, it was awful and a big part of what was killing Zoklet.  A day or two is more than enough time for a person to lose interest, and it often took longer (did for me, anyway).  This sort of thing just seems like creating extra work where there need be none for the sake of it.

No images under 100 posts.  Problem pretty much solved, with the global mods we have now and Arnox there too.  Anything that requires tons of mods to function isn't functioning properly, and we should be doing all we can to limit the number of mods so we can grow to be something different (hopefully better) than zoklet.

The users are tired of administrative cliques.  Let's just all simply be good posters and friends

[Iudicium Infernalum]

Make it admin/mod approval only.

How would we know what are good users and what aren't though?

You wouldn't. Don't listen to that retard. He's the one who got zok to setup mod/admin approvals for new signups, which basically killed any chance of the forum's expansion.

Nope. That was out of my control. However you can easily tell the ad spammers by there username which is a bunch of gibberish, and check IP's and sign up emails for alts.

Anyway, you'd need someone dedicated to the approval process as not to stifle growth as spectral mentioned. If you have a guy or two looking at registrations you could cover it. This is how it went down at Zoklet and accounts got approved in a day or two and all the ad spammers were kept out.

No images under 100 posts.  Problem pretty much solved, with the global mods we have now and Arnox there too.  Anything that requires tons of mods to function isn't functioning properly, and we should be doing all we can to limit the number of mods so we can grow to be something different (hopefully better) than zoklet.

This would work as well, given that the registrations would be open with this feature i would prefer this.

[DaGuru]

Haters gonna' hate.

Herp. Derp. AND. Slobber.

So at the end of the day when all his FAILED arguments are shoved right back down his throat, all the little bitch can do is fall onto some silly meme. How very Zoklet of you. 

[Slave of the Beast]

Jesus Christ, couldn't you have left your bullshit over at Zoklet? Listen up faggots, i'd be happy to engage you in a useless discussion about Zoklet and totse and whatever the fuck is on your mind. But let's keep this topic about the sign up process now shall we?

Why don't you just dele... oops, wrong site!

Spec's right. I once tried making alt accounts from other people's computers with sensible user names, etc... several weeks later they still weren't approved. Zoklet user activity was consistently declining to the point where you conceded your own forum wasn't worth posting in, yet still you kept that shit-eating smile saying that everything was heading in the right direction despite providing stats that clearly said it wasn't! Zoklet's closure isn't your fault, but Psycho-'happy to justify admin policy'-mantis, amongst others, telling anyone who pointed out the obvious that they were full of herp-derp bullshit contributed to its decline.

The point here is that Admins or mods approving new accounts is fine, in principle, if they can do it very swiftly. As in 24hrs, not 24 days.

[Idiosyncrasy]

I voted open registration over the invite system.  If you can disable images for at least the first 20 posts (most of the bots stopped around 15 that I noticed), then that would be nice, but I think we can try open and then adjust accordingly.

The DoS attacks stopped, hopefully the CP attackers will too.

[Spectre]

one way or the other you really shouldn't leave them closed much longer especially when you have a large amount of people looking for somewhere to post right now

[-SpectraL]

Registration was only blocked two days ago. Zanick registered on the 6th, and today's the 8th.

http://www.intosanctuary.com/index.php?action=mlist;sort=registered;start=0;desc

[MoaningLisa]

I like the probation period or dipshit catcher we had on &t2, where you HAD to post in introductions and couldn't start threads...I think the 5 posts was extremely low, but that idea works.

I like the idea someone mentioned of not having .jpg available...also probably double or triple the flood limiter.

also have an admin button to unlock the account.

[-SpectraL]

But the Zoklet kidiots are so hardened and experienced and determined that they would skate circles around anything you might setup. Ask anyone from Zoklet who isn't a kidiot and they will wholeheartedly agree. The only real effective thing you can do is simply just good old-fashioned, manual moderation and a case by case basis handling, just like the old days. You won't be able to "shortcut" this one, not by a long shot.

[Arnox]

Alright, guys. Here's how it going to fortunately and unfortunately be.

The bad news is:
- I can't make it to where the [img] BBCode is restricted to certain members. There was a mod for it but it only works with SMF versions 1.1.9 and lower... We have 2.0.8, the latest. The best I can do is make it to where you guys can set manually in your profile whether you want to see images or not. I can also restrict [img] BBCode entirely but that's a blanket ban and I don't wanna do that unless we're under attack of course. There was a mod as well that works with our site that can restrict images and links to certain posters in their sigs. But again, that only covers sigs. Ultimately, we're just gonna have to Captcha our registration and stay vigilant for now.

The good news:
- Registration is now open. No invite system.
- I can make it to where if your post count is under a certain threshold, posting anything requires filling out a Captcha every time. But it is a pain though.