M42club.com - Home of the BMW E30/E36 318i/iS
GENERAL => Site and club discussion => Topic started by: PumpItUp on May 17, 2010, 01:50:31 AM
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My friend can't join because free email accounts are blocked. Not everyone works in the computer industry or is a student at a private college. What were you thinking??? :confused: There are better ways to block bot registration, like custom questions (i.e. what comes after E21). I'm sure theres at least 50 people who didn't register for this site because of this. Some of them could of been quality contributors (not like me).
http://m42club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11514
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This is why I recommended member validation. But it's not my site, nor my rules.
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and the chinese bot who just made 6 posts about "country strong", etc in no way subtracts from my point about email restrictions :D
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I just wish the forum email notifications worked again. If it's a question of hosting and/or assistance, I'll gladly help -- I may be a car noob but I've been setting up web and email servers for years.
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Yeah I can't change my email address either because it's a gmail account.
Ghey.
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Agreed, it took me almost two years before I was able to gain access to an email account that would fly. Can't imagine how many people just walked away. Custom questions is a great idea. Not like the email blocking has stopped the spam...
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People are manually making accounts.
Were trying are best to clean all this shit up. While Sheepdog shells out his own $ to fix all this. Its not cheap folks.
-Matt
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They need to read the market better. If they sold mtech pattern wallets, they might have a better shot at selling their junk on here.
Thanks for the hard work, we might bitch, but we do love our niche here. It's appreciated.
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easiest/best way to rid of spam is to make all new users require comment approval for their first 2 posts.
or just make a bunch of us mods. spam will be deleted and posts might actually be moved to the correct threads
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+1
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Keep in mind, it costs $, time, we have jobs, and work doing other things. Sheepdog is working on this. He hates the spam like we do.....
I feel a 1 word reply, is just a means to adding a post count. And not fully understanding the problem.
-Matt
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we have jobs
-Matt
sittin on teh interwebz is mah job. i'm disabled.
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Matt-B, allow me to apologize. I'm speaking from frustration at not being able to join this community for a very long time. I appreciate everything that you guys work constantly to provide us with. My "+1" was for the idea, not knocking any of the efforts that are undertaken here currently.
Would it be helpful to have a few more mods? I'm sure there are more than a few dedicated gents on here who would be more than willing.
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easiest/best way to rid of spam is to make all new users require comment approval for their first 2 posts.
or just make a bunch of us mods. spam will be deleted and posts might actually be moved to the correct threads
Think so?
I have done that before, it didn't work.
On my other site, I have 12 people on staff.
As a group they perform 60+ moderations per day. Do you really want to add cleaning up 500 spam posts as well? No, I cannot have 60 people running around with access to the inner workings of a website.
Sorry, but it's not difficult to find a free email host you can use here. Two allowed ones have big names on the internet. Besides that, almost every internet provider gives you 5 free email accounts. This is what I encourage people to use.
As for the two posts, that is great in theory, but I have seen spammers put up 50 spam at a time, with 30 different accounts all in about 10 minutes. Sure with your idea, those posts wouldn't be seen, but it slows down the site and creates a mess for the staff to clean up.
It's not just spammers you have to worry about either. You would be amazed at the trolls it keeps out too. Moderation on my other board dropped by 70% when I enacted this systems. Yes it hurt registration some, but not much.
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Would there be an easy way for people who are valid contributors to be allowed to invite others? That would have been helpful to me before I was able to register.
Thank you, sheepdog, for all the work you put in here. It's become my most valuable resource of late.
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Just passing their name to the staff can accomplish that.
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it took me awhile to sign up since i use hotmail and yahoo. i forgot i have my college email..lol.
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/\ this, internet providers and schools, give u emails
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For those of you willing to spend $10 bucks a year on your own domain, it's really quite simple to set it up with Google Apps for my Domain Standard (free) Edition. You get up to 5 accounts, you can have a shared calendar, chat, Sites, shared documents, etc. so it's perfect for a family or a group of friends (or you can just use it for yourself). Plus you get webmail that's identical to Gmail's interface, but with you@yourdomain.com instead of @gmail.com. Postini-based spam control... man I should work for Google.
Anyways if anyone needs any help setting this up, send me a PM.
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There lots of free web based emails that work, you just have to dig.
Net scrape and Aohell are not blocked.
I only tried to block the more common spammer used ones like Yahoo, MSN, Gmail, and .RU domains.
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http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=193622
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http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=193622
Matt helped me out. Thanks for the assist man. :cool:
I just wish you guys had a note on the registration page that free email addresses can't be used.
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I just wish the forum email notifications worked again. If it's a question of hosting and/or assistance, I'll gladly help -- I may be a car noob but I've been setting up web and email servers for years.
What gravyface said. Not being able to get instant (or even daily) notification of replies to subscribed threads really reduces the utility of the site. I just created a thread on r3vlimited.com and got an email 5 minutes later that someone'd replied. It could take me days to notice a reply here. :(
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Hola Picholla!!!! So I just joined.
I am a member of r3v and e46 fanatics under the same name. I recently got my 1991 318is and save for some work that needs to be done, I am in LUB...I almost did not join because my 'free' email account did not pass the gestapo email police. I so happen to have several other email addresses that I pay for, so now you know I am rich and semi-famous (right...).
It may be a good idea to post the Member Validation crap upfront, so that the deterrant system allows legit folks to join.
Keep up the great work Matt B.!!!!!
PS: I will work in my signature some time soon...
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Same problem here. Couldn't join with my Gmail account, tried e-mailing, no answer.
Just joined now with my work e-mail and can't even change the e-mail.
I am not a bot, I am a real person with a real 318is from Belgium.. Is it possible for a mod to change my e-mail address so I won't get notifications in my work inbox?
Thanks in advance.. Glad to join the community.
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It's not currently possible. If it's any consolation, I agree with you. I'm not permitted to use GMail myself.
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That's just ridiculous actually. If the mod can't even put specific people on a 'safe list'?
Too bad!
Anyway, since I won't be bothering making a personal thread discussing my E30 history here's a video of some fun I had in my 318is last week:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYfGS5UyKfo&list=UUgrX0V66HtIGFua6AgYRZiA&index=1&feature=plcp
Small list of mods:
-Bilstein B8 + Eibach suspension
-E36 rack
-S4.27 25% differential
-Single mass flywheel, trimmed
-MarkD Chip: 146hp
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Actually, the admins can put your Yahoo or Gmail address into your account after you are registered. The system will take that, it just won't accept them being put in and verified.