Polverone
Now celebrating 21 years of madness
Posts: 3186
Registered: 19-5-2002
Location: The Sunny Pacific Northwest
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Forum has been moved to manual registrations only
Hi,
Sorry for the long neglect. I am disabling registrations. Only people who email me a registration request, and are able to receive email back, will be
able to register now. It was an overwhelming chore for any mod to keep up with the flood of trash. Now it should be manageable. To anyone who already
burnt out trying to hold back the flood, I apologize and I understand.
Thanks,
Polverone
PGP Key and corresponding e-mail address
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WGTR
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Registered: 29-9-2013
Location: Online
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Hey, welcome back!
This sounds like a good idea for now. I hope things are well with you.
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Tsjerk
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Registered: 20-4-2005
Location: Netherlands
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Thumbs up good God mother etcetera you are back!
Happy you are back.
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XeonTheMGPony
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Awesome news Can you please give Jsum and some others higher mod powers for the next time you need to take a break or some thing?
Hope you been faring well!
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j_sum1
Administrator
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Location: At home
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Quote: Originally posted by XeonTheMGPony  | Awesome news Can you please give Jsum and some others higher mod powers for the next time you need to take a break or some thing?
Hope you been faring well! |
My powers are probably already more than I can handle thanks.
There is a certain irony in someone with as little knowledge and experience as me being a mod of a chemistry forum. But I have had fun, learned lots
and hopefully not made too many mistakes or pissed anyone off too much.
That said, I think there is a need for a better contingency plan in the event that polverone is away for a while again or (perish the thought)
incapacitated. It might be expedient for other mods to have access to the manual registration process. I haven't raised this question with polverone
or any of the other moderators, but I will.
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BromicAcid
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Location: Wisconsin
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I was just looking at the Stats tab of the site. I remember back in my day we had about 20% of the members had posted, now it's down to 3.28%,
stupid Spam Bots - killing our stats.
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DavidJR
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Registered: 1-1-2018
Location: Scotland
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What's happening with the move to more modern forum software?
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solo
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Posts: 3975
Registered: 9-12-2002
Location: Estados Unidos de La Republica Mexicana
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Welcome back....seems like a long time, but we're all still around .....solo
It's better to die on your feet, than live on your knees....Emiliano Zapata.
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fusso
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And need a cleanup too, some bots that registered last month has just spammed.
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j_sum1
Administrator
Posts: 6320
Registered: 4-10-2014
Location: At home
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Mood: Most of the ducks are in a row
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If you spot something that does not belong, just report it.
Let me say tha the volume of spam has gone way down. Three are always sleeper accounts that register and then spam days or even months later. But
these are not many and they will die off pretty quickly with the new system.
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Polverone
Now celebrating 21 years of madness
Posts: 3186
Registered: 19-5-2002
Location: The Sunny Pacific Northwest
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Mood: Waiting for spring
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I have manually registered three new accounts since the move to the new email request system. I know that there is still work to purge the backlog of
old spammers and spam. But at least now the efforts of myself and other moderators will have a lasting impact.
Thanks for this change especially go to Bert, who personally messaged me urging me to get the problems here under control. This was the most expedient
solution I could come up with. My life offline keeps expanding with family and friends in need, a demanding job, and deaths in my family over the past
few years. I am doing ok personally but I grow more neglectful here every year. That's not good!
As a partial remedy, I have initiated the manual email registration system and I have set up calendar reminders for myself to look
for emailed registration requests and approve them, twice a week.
Right now the process for manual registration is pretty crude: I go to the forum settings, re-enable registration, manually register accounts in a new
private browser window, and then turn registrations back off. I also delete any unauthorized accounts that registered during those few minutes of
opportunity.
I believe that the power to enable/disable registrations like this requires super-administrator powers. But a regular administrator
should try this linkto see if you have the power to enable/disable registrations: https://www.sciencemadness.org/whisper/cp.php?action=setting...
If there are other super-administrators (or administrators, if it turns out they have the same power above) who are willing to share an email address
with the general public, I can update the registration message to add multiple points of contact with their corresponding email addresses.
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Cou
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Posts: 958
Registered: 16-5-2013
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open registration again?
There hasn't been a new post added to detritus in 2 months now.
i'm really missing seeing clown posts in detritus. it's my go-to forum when i need a good laugh. i consider it one of the hidden humor goldmines of
the internet.
Open the floodgates so i can laugh at trolls, cooks, kewls, dumb kids, and scammers again.
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j_sum1
Administrator
Posts: 6320
Registered: 4-10-2014
Location: At home
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Mood: Most of the ducks are in a row
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Not happening, Cou. Manual registration is to keep the spammers out. I got tired of deleting 70 spam posts three times a day.
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Chemorg42
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Registered: 12-11-2019
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| Quote: Originally posted by Cou | open registration again?
There hasn't been a new post added to detritus in 2 months now.
i'm really missing seeing clown posts in detritus. it's my go-to forum when i need a good laugh. i consider it one of the hidden humour goldmines of
the internet.
Open the floodgates so i can laugh at trolls, cooks, kewls, dumb kids, and scammers again. |
Though I agree with j_sum1 that the manual registration system is definitely the best option (never having experienced the days of severe spam, I can
only imagine how obnoxious it must have been), I can't help but agree that the detritus forum is a "Humour goldmine" as Cou put it.
Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood a single word. (attributed to Niels Bohr)
I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics. (Richard Feynman)
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Chemorg42
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Spoken too soon!
Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood a single word. (attributed to Niels Bohr)
I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics. (Richard Feynman)
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