Create New Topic Button

[AshieF73]

I am not sure if this is a new button, but I have just started having problem with it and spammers.   So my first question is can I disable it?

My email account associated with our forums was just suspended because it seems spammers are using this button and form, then don't complete the registration so an email is triggered saying 'Did you forget to submit your content?'.  Hundreds this morning.

I would rather forum users create an account before trying to post so I would like to disable this button.

[Nathan Explosion]

It would be more beneficial to turn off "Post before registering" instead, which allows guests to begin creating a post, and leave it sitting there ... which I believe then triggers that email out to them to remind them to finish off the submission.

[AshieF73]

1 minute ago, Nathan Explosion said:

It would be more beneficial to turn off "Post before registering" instead, which allows guests to begin creating a post, and leave it sitting there ... which I believe then triggers that email out to them to remind them to finish off the submission.

Oh perfect, yes you are right Nathan, thank you.  I can't believe I have had that option enabled all this time. 

[AshieF73]

Does anybody know if those ghost posts will be in a database table gathering dust that I need to manually delete or are they automatically deleted from the table when the guest fails to register?

[Nathan Explosion]

They will be pruned eventually by the 'cleanup' task - that tasks runs once a day, and clears out those posts that are over 7 days old (I think)

[Adriano Faria]

40 minutes ago, AshieF73 said:

Oh perfect, yes you are right Nathan, thank you.  I can't believe I have had that option enabled all this time. 

Just to add to the topic, it is enabled by the default, which isn’t right IMO.