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Post by Admin on Jun 25, 2020 10:16:45 GMT -5
Here's a question for all.
Should we allow "guests" to post or should we require everyone to register?
Pros - you will probably have more posting in threads if you allow guests to post. I think the Mercer board is the only SoCon board that currently allows guests to post.
Cons - You will have fewer folks registering when they don't have to register to post, also maybe more spam, but the spam can be easily dealt with by the moderators.
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Post by SU 97 on Jun 25, 2020 10:53:03 GMT -5
I'd prefer to keep the registration required but I'm game to allowing guests to posts until it gets too big of a pain to monitor. I'll need another moderator or two to help with deleting posts if necessary.
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Post by Smurf on Jun 25, 2020 13:09:01 GMT -5
I think it worked well on the old board by having guests register before posting. However, I understand and can appreciate that moderators might not have ample time to vet folks.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2020 13:31:27 GMT -5
I think it worked well on the old board by having guests register before posting. However, I understand and can appreciate that moderators might not have ample time to vet folks.Just so you guys know, right now, we have open enrollment. Open enrollment means that for anyone that applies, membership is automatically granted by board, and they can immediately post. That can be changed to a system where a request for membership must be approved before a person can post. If 97 decides that's the way he wants to operate, we'll change it. Right now, in getting all the old board members over and registered here, the open enrollment is the best, as it requires no actions from the moderator. On the Catamount Sports Forum, I use the same open membership with automatic approvals for several reason. The system does notify me of all new members, I then check their IP address to determine where the member's IP address is located (if it's out of the US, it's usually a spammer), the board will also allow me to check their IP address against known spammers IP address. So, I do these two checks on all new members, if it's an out of country address or matches a spammer IP address, I just block them (their IP address). The process if very simple and I block most spammers before they actually do any spamming on the board. If spam does pop up on the board, it's very simple to delete that post(s).
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Post by Cujo on Jun 25, 2020 16:15:32 GMT -5
Do what The Cats suggests, is what I suggest.
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Post by SU 97 on Jun 26, 2020 7:09:25 GMT -5
Just for clarification, 97 is a she. As for approving posters, I'm fine with open and approving like The Cats is doing on the Catamounts forum. That's similar to what we did in previous iterations of the old board. Before it freaked out, my only approval was looking at the email address. Spammers almost never had a normal looking email address. If it looked "off", then I'd check the IP address. It doesn't take that long and as long as I get an email notification, I should be able to approve them pretty quickly.
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Post by whoknows on Jun 29, 2020 8:20:10 GMT -5
i vote no. we dont need any keyboard cowboys
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Post by 77SU on Jun 29, 2020 9:18:07 GMT -5
You have to be registered on any other board to post.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2020 6:10:29 GMT -5
You have to be registered on any other board to post. The Mercer board lets visitors post, and on several occasions we have let visitors post on the Catamount Sports Forum. The only problem I had with visitors posting were the anti-Speir posters took advantage and sometimes got ugly as visitors, I spent too much time cleaning up and deleting posts, so I ended it. If the football program ever gets back on track, I will open back up to allowing visitors, because it does increase folks that post on the board, and for a moderator, that what you want, increased activity.
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Post by FUBeAR on Jul 5, 2020 0:17:02 GMT -5
I think only die-hard Samford Fans should be allowed to post here. I would think some type of linkage with 23 & Me could be implemented requiring DNA testing to prove one’s verified affiliation with Samford.
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