Why is all that junk setup for this site?
Almost Impossible to register...
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projectwinback
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Almost Impossible to register...
It took me almost 10 mins to register for this site. Half of the time, the confirmation could picture would not load, then the anti-bot thing would not work...
Why is all that junk setup for this site?
Why is all that junk setup for this site?
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Re: Almost Impossible to register...
I'm no moderator, but I'm pretty sure that since this forum is so well-known and -indexed, they get a lot of spam bots attempting to post onto it. I don't personally remember the process taking long, but it is very effective.projectwinback wrote:Why is all that junk setup for this site?
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There are a lot of things that could have caused such an exhaustive amount of time to transpire. First, how many passes did it take to actually complete the registration? Second, how long did it take for your mail client to tell you that you had mail?
10 minutes is not a long time from start to finish, but if it took 10 minutes to get from the initial registration form to the 'Please check your mail for an activation key' then that is a potential problem.
And to answer your question about why we do that... we are a very popular board and we get a pretty good amount of spam around here. A little inconvenience to the real users registration process is a small price to pay for keeping out the hundreds of daily spam posts we could be getting.
10 minutes is not a long time from start to finish, but if it took 10 minutes to get from the initial registration form to the 'Please check your mail for an activation key' then that is a potential problem.
And to answer your question about why we do that... we are a very popular board and we get a pretty good amount of spam around here. A little inconvenience to the real users registration process is a small price to pay for keeping out the hundreds of daily spam posts we could be getting.
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It didn't take me that long when I registered today, but it did take longer to go through the process than most forums (due to the extra spam-proofing measures). Still not too bad, though. It sounds like, in your experience, the images didn't load.. which is odd.. but to contribute results of my experiences: everything loaded fine for me right away.