bigPaws Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 While I think it's great that IPB has built-in spam controls, it only has the following options for possible spammers: Proceed with account registration Flag the account for admin review Register account but mark as banned One reason why the Stop-Forum-Spam plugin is so popular is that it completely declines the right for known spammers to register. I'd therefore like to suggest that IPS/IPB has this option in the Spam Prevention actions: Proceed with account registration Flag the account for admin review Register account but mark as banned Decline registration *new* I think this would be a logical addition to the list of built-in actions. Anyone else agree? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigPaws Posted November 16, 2012 Author Share Posted November 16, 2012 PS. I noticed some of the IPS staff on AdminExtra saying they wanted feedback. It seems to me that it would be nice to acknowledge ideas that are left here. More often than not users don't get a reply (in support or otherwise) from anyone at IPS. I feel it should be a policy to at least acknowledge those customers who have taken time to share their ideas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfarber Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 While we would love to acknowledge every single feedback suggestion submitted, a quick look at just this forum reflects almost 11,000 topics. This isn't including any other products besides IP.Board. We simply do not have the time to respond to every single idea that is posted (many times suggestions are duplicates, such as this one, and our responses to the suggestion can be found in the other topics on the same subject), but I can assure you that every single idea is read and considered. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigPaws Posted November 16, 2012 Author Share Posted November 16, 2012 Cheers Brandon and sorry if this was a duplicate suggestion. Could you link me to the feedback thread where this was mentioned and previously acknowledged? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfarber Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 They've not all been answered. A few I've found with a quick search (this one has discussion, including from staff, of the reasons we did not do this initially) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rheddy Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 brandon is quite correct. While I unuderstand that it's frustrating among many that the staff don't reply, you can't expect them to. This is a large community and there isn't enough time in the day to respond to actual inquiries. My own community is moderately sized and even I've had trouble trying to keep up with everything that's posted. Considering that IPS is busy with the development on IPS products, you should give them a break on this. Besides, spammer topics on here proliferate like rabbits. You can't stop a spammer from registering, it's impossible. Only thing you can do is put safeguards in place. What the OP is asking for is impossible for any developer of any system where it's possible to register for an account. No system can expect to be 100%, you can only hope to slow them down. Also, don't wait and expect IPS to do your work for you. It's your responsibility to install and enable various anti-spam features. Sure, it may force you to actually work and install this stuff yourself, but IPS is not responsible if you fail to put anti-spam safeguards in place. There's IPS anti-spam, question and answer challenge, anti forum spam hook/plugin, recaptcha and dozens of other safeguards. Plus, if you're concerned about spammers, then disable new registrations or choose "email and admin validation". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Royzee Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 One reason why the Stop-Forum-Spam plugin is so popular is that it completely declines the right for known spammers to register. The SFS database also contains spammers from all sorts of different kind of websites, not just IPS forums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rheddy Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 Exactly, that's why I love that application. I was doing everything manually before, that plugin does it for me. :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3DKiwi Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 I agree with the original post. I would prefer to completely reject them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfarber Posted November 20, 2012 Share Posted November 20, 2012 You might be interested in today's blog post: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigPaws Posted November 20, 2012 Author Share Posted November 20, 2012 Yep spotted that - great stuff Brandon and thanks for the follow up :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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