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Old 03-12-2007
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Automagic Registration Disabled

As some of the newer members may have noticed, they are unable to post anything! In order to combat forum spam I have been forced to disable automatic registration and confirmation.

**** IF YOU CAN'T POST AND WISH TO, PLEASE PRIVATE MESSAGE TFCAdmin ****

I will activate your account for you.

E-mail confirmation has been disabled permanantly. All new user registrations from this point on will be moderated.

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Re: Automagic Registration Disabled

Awesome! I hope we finally get to see some peace and order in here.
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Yes! I applaud you on doing this. Reading spam in every topic gets irritating.
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Re: Automagic Registration Disabled

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Yes! I applaud you on doing this. Reading spam in every topic gets irritating.
Personally, ive never seen any spam in topics yet
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Re: Automagic Registration Disabled

Hopefully this reduces spam.
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Re: Automagic Registration Disabled

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Personally, ive never seen any spam in topics yet
I'm pretty sure it's been deleted by now.
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Re: Automagic Registration Disabled

*Clapping* Yeah, some force is shown.
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That's a good move. Spamming was really annoying, this should stop all those spam bots, and slow other spammers.
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Re: Automagic Registration Disabled

While moderating the prior two week's new members; about 2% were actual people. Out of the 175 registrations only 4 people seemed legitimate.

Forum spam is getting out of hand, expecially since anyone with fifty bucks can buy automated software to do it for them.
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Re: Automagic Registration Disabled

But I thought the really good software was more like $400... Yea, I know. Sorry.

You're move was a good one. Since my post on link spammer death, our guy seems to have gone to ground. Still churning new accounts but not posting. I also suspected he wasn't the only link spammer creating new sleeper accounts.

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