We need to change public applications

Bovive · Post by **Bovive** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 12:00 am

Ok here is what I am thinking. I send an applicant over here to post an app but they can't because they havn't been approved as a member. But anyone publically can view all these apps. Instead lets change it so public can post an app and only members can view apps. Then we don't approve a person as a member on the forums until they are a member in the guild.

Post by **Lexx Yovel** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 7:45 am

I'm not sure I quite understand, can you go into greater detail?

The Public Section used to not require registration. You'd be able to hop on these boards and just freely post as a "Guest." I'd have kept it that way, but the amount of spam bots advertising their wares was obscene. So I changed it so the Public Section was publically viewable, but still required registration.

In additional, I would also like to note that unless I've heard of the person, I won't know that applicants aren't spam-bots. Every day I have to clear literally over a 100 spam bots, since they keep trying to register. Often, at least one of them will be a legitimate applicant who I just never heard of.

So I agree that there's some kinks with the current system that need to be worked out, but explain more. My brain cannot compute :lol:

Corvallon · Post by **Corvallon** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 1:40 pm

To ability to submit an app without registering?

Bovive · Post by **Bovive** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 5:48 pm

Aha, I forgot about all the spam bots. You can pretty much ignore my suggestion