Preventing automated registrations: Last idea.

[Davey]

This is "the" last idea I could think of.
It's simply a case of switching a few current things around.
Here it goes:

Idea

1. Use email authorization as step 1 instead of after filling out the form.
2. When the link is activated from the email, the user can then continue registration process.
3. This way, the user can start posting immediately without the frustration of waiting for an email.

How does it sound?
And now, will it go okay? Can it be carried out?

Dave.

PS: Notes:

• Perhaps allow for 3 days waiting for activation rather than 1 (to allow for slow email accounts).
• Do not mark the user as registered in any way until email confirmation (so that the boards cannot be flooded excessively, and I'm not saying the sending emails cannot be flooded, but this would be only minor next to 1000 queries being made immediately, look at the difference).
• Remember stuff like email bans, IP bans, etc., so that this cannot be bypassed before the user knows (i.e.: after confirming).

That is all.