[Steve]

Hi, i've been a reader of the forum for a while and tried joining last weekend however instantly got banned? its not a big deal, i just wondered why i was instantly banned? i registered with the same username and the email ____________. ta

This post has been edited by Denny: 31 July 2011 - 05:14 PM
Reason for edit: removed email address from the full view of the internet

[If Carlsberg Made Chairmen]

Is it because you post the same thread twice?

[Denny]

Hey Steve,
If your account was just deleted on registering, erm, Sorry, that looks like it was a mistake by one of the admins.
Along with the new members, we get between 20 and 50 spammer's trying to register on the site per day. We have to manually check and remove these to protect everyone who uses this messageboard, it's the same process we use to approve accounts.

Most spammers use 'Nonsense' Email addresses or random bits of words and numbers with the occasional normal name chucked in for good measure.
Many are obvious, any that aren't are checked against lists of spammers as well as IP addresses before we approve the accounts.
The problem is for us, is that when you have a less obvious email address like yours, it can get missed as we check through all the new members. I guess this is what will have happened last weekend, i can see that 52 accounts that were removed that day.
All i can do is apologise, it was nothing personal, just a check box too many clicked.

I know it's no comfort, I think the process is right to err in the favour of stopping malicious accounts, which obviously yours isn't, but if i had to choose which way to err, i would choose ruining one person's day and have them re-apply rather than ruining a few thousand peoples day by having virus riddled links posted, then I think we should go for the needs of the many.

Apologies once again.

Denny

For anyone else thinking of registering, if you use your normal email and your user name/ something cfc or town related, it's much easier for us to spot you in the crowd of new members when you are registering.
Also, when you are registering and waiting to be approved, you can actually post in the messageboard issues forum, if you want to say hi and let us know you are normal human being and not a spambot from the future!

[Goku]

Denny, I am sure that most people won't have realised that they can post in the messageboard issues forum whilst awaiting on their account verification, would it be a good idea to mention that in the welcome email? Or is it already mentioned?

[Johnnyspireite7]

How did R2D2 slip the net then?

[warfey is a spireite]

Haslandboi, on 31 July 2011 - 06:16 PM, said:

Denny, I am sure that most people won't have realised that they can post in the messageboard issues forum whilst awaiting on their account verification, would it be a good idea to mention that in the welcome email? Or is it already mentioned?

shouldnt worry i get it all the time pmsl