Email Activation

Mercury · Posted: 3/30/2006, 1:04 am Post subject: Email Activation

Do you require email activation at your forum? And your motivation for doing so was... ?

At my forum, I do not require email activation because I want to make starting to get involved quick and easy. However, I understand the argument otherwise. Sometimes someone might try to flood new accounts, and though this may be rare, dealing with it would be irritating and time consuming, and besides, members who'd be dedicated enough to bother with wouldn't think it too much of a hassle for a simple email activation.

But there's also the requirement of an administrator personally activating an account.
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Thoul · Posted: 3/30/2006, 1:47 am Post subject:

On most of my sites I require it from the start as spammer prevention.

On one it was a different story. Once I didn't require activation, but I did send out e-mails saying "welcome, thanks for registering, blah blah blah." Then one day somebody decided to sign up with a "fake" e-mail address. It turns out to be somebody's real e-mail, and they weren't happy about getting an e-mail saying they someone had registered using their e-mail. So I had to go delete the account, apologize, etc, etc.

Now I require activation to stop that sort of thing from happening again. Ever since, I would say 25% or more of the activation e-mails from that site bounce back to me with errors like "this person doesn't have a yahoo account."
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Yes. Similar to Jeremy.
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Cross_+_Flame · Posted: 3/30/2006, 11:55 am Post subject:

Yes similar to Patrick similar to Jeremy.
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Nick · Posted: 3/31/2006, 3:26 pm Post subject:

I do, and always have, but even then, I've had issues with one person in particular registering, posting profane topics, getting banned, returning with a different e-mail, and repeating the process all over.
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Teknomancer · Posted: 4/1/2006, 10:48 am Post subject:

No. I do NOT have email activation because I really really hate it when I join other forums.

A really good "Image Verification" program should stop all BOTS from registering and for the PESKY persistent SPAM user who keeps joining, the way to go about it is to BAN him from IP level, from domain level if needed...
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Ex0dus · Posted: 4/1/2006, 9:29 pm Post subject:

I used to not until bots broke through the phpbb image verification. Basically had no choice after that. Now that I have a new image verification system set up, I no longer require the email verification.

~HG~ · Posted: 4/1/2006, 10:42 pm Post subject:

I use email notification on all boards once they have been established for awhile.

The main reson is because I found on an old board that I had that people were using fake email email addies to register with and when you sent mass emails to the members, the majority of them bounced and that was very annoying.

I also use the email verification mod as well so that they have to verify their email address when registering.
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