Manually Approving Accounts

[Nomad]

I am running a forum where I manually approve account. In the past accounts were auto approved, which led to spamming and it was a tedious work to prune these spam accounts. Therefore, these days I manually approve account. While it is not possible to determine whether the newly registered user is spammer or not but you can get a rough idea by looking at the domain they use for email.

 

[Dominique]

Running a forum with manual account approval is a smart approach to prevent spamming. While it’s hard to tell if a new user is a spammer immediately, checking the email domain is a useful tactic for spotting suspicious accounts early. It’s all about reducing future work.

 

[Ja sa bong]

I am not okay with manually approval of new accounts. It's very annoying to me. VGR was the last forum which did that to me. I really hated it.

 

[Ravenfreak]

I think manual approval can put members off from participating in your community if you don't have an active admin who's there to approve accounts as soon as possible. Last year I tried joining a forum that had admin approval enabled and noticed that the last time anyone signed up on the forum was a long time ago, and that shown that the admins had abandoned the forum unfortunately.

 

[Nomad]

Manual approval of account can certainly put off users. I have been in this shoe as a user. However, as a forum owner when you do not have moderators to moderate users and posts, manual approval might help you, especially when your forum is small.

 

[Cpvr]

Manual approving accounts is something that I only do for users that are caught in the known spam filters.

However, if your forum doesn’t have good spam protection in place, then it’s a good idea to manual approval accounts.

 

[Heatman]

Manual approving accounts is something that I only do for users that are caught in the known spam filters.

However, if your forum doesn’t have good spam protection in place, then it’s a good idea to manual approval accounts.

This is exactly what my approach is like when it comes to manually approving of accounts. Any member who haven't given me reason to restrict his account and activities on the forum wouldn't have he me put a chain on his account.

 

[Kennysplash]

But when your accounts gain more visibility and many are signing up it will be tedious. I think there is a plugin that detects spam and blocks them while auto approving real accounts?