Hi, I have a medium-large forum with arround 20K users, my problem is we have a large number of young users, this users, when banned create dozens of accounts to spam the forum, the problem is mail activation doesn`t work, only a tiny fraction of activation mails reach their target. I want to know if there is a way to fix this, or a better method to keep the undesirables away, IP banning is out of the question, everyone has dinamic IP and they know very well how to change there IPs. With the forum Staff we have been thinking of authorizing each new account but it takes a lot of work, others proposed moderating the first 5 post of a new account but I think is even mork work that way and not very user-friendly. I someone knows a better method for sending activation emails, or fixing it or the server requirements, or a mod (NO miserables users mod) wich helps us keep them from creating 10 accounts in 5 minutes.
The forum is
www.tierras-perdidas.com/f a General Discussion & MMORPG Gaming Forum (Spanish).
Look the amount of banned users yesterday (The red users with a linethrou their names)
02-17-2010, 07:53 PM
Re-enable account activation via mail / Keep undesirables out of forum
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