Registration and activation

Important site and forum news, announcements, and feedback goes here.

Moderator: Board Staff

Mr. Tines
Administrator
Administrator
User avatar
Age: 66
Posts: 21373
Joined: Nov 23, 2004
Location: This sceptered isle.
Gender: Male
Contact:

Registration and activation

Postby Mr. Tines » Sun May 13, 2007 4:35 am

The is addressed to new (zero post count) and prospective members of the forums.

As Aaron announced recently, new accounts will have to be activated by admins, because of the growing number of image spams by the porno spammers. This is not a perfect solution as they are still able to display links in their profiles -- it would need patching the forum code to manage that.

Consequently the admins (mainly myself) have to go through and activate accounts -- or purge them -- manually.

Some of the new sign-ups are obviously spammers : they are advertising their wares through links and keywords, even if they have an "otaku.ru" mail address.

Some of the new sign-ups are obviously fannish : the profile is obviously from "one of us".

And then there are the ones in the middle -- name, email and nothing else; especially what is an essentially throw-away mail address.

It used to be that establishing yourself by posting was enough. Now that option is not open, we are having to judge you by your profile alone. And if I'm in the rhythm of "spammer-delete-spammer-delete...." ambiguous accounts may not get the benefit of the doubt.

So, when signing up, please embrace your otaku-dom and look like the in-crowd, even if you are only here to lurk.

This also applies to pre-existing lurkers with blank profiles.
Reminder: Play nicely <<>> My vanity publishing:- NGE|blog|Photos|retro-blog|Fanfics &c.|MAL|𝕏|🐸|🦣
Avatar: art deco Asuka

Return to “EvaGeeks News and Feedback”

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 4 guests