Hi, just wondering what methods people are using for the registration process, and how well the IPS anti spam works?

 

Currently on my vbulletin board I use email verification and manual approval.  This causes 2 problems, firstly people are impatient and expect immediate access to everything these days, i usually don't get round to approving members till late in the day.

Secondly, probably only around 50% of people seem to even receive the email.

I'd like to do away with email verification but don't want to be flooded with spam bots.  Interested to hear everyones settings and their results.

Thanks

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I use email validation and approval of the first post (member group setting). So people can post instantly after email approval, but their posts wont show until my manual approval and so spamming becomes pointless. Works 99,99% of the time. 

So do you think email approval is necessary on top of 1st post approval?  Thanks for the reply.

I dont see the option for moderating first post, can you be more specific where I can find this please?

6 minutes ago, Steve Bullman said:

So do you think email approval is necessary on top of 1st post approval?  

Depends on your objective. I only accept users with a valid email address as a general principle. 

 

6 minutes ago, Steve Bullman said:

I dont see the option for moderating first post, can you be more specific where I can find this please?

gotcha, thanks