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Registration approval required based on time

9 votes

Submitted by Monaco, 28th July 2011, 3:13:56 PM

The Problem:
Spammers sign up and post spam late in the night when no moderator is active to delete and ban the spammer.

Since there is no foolproof way to stop spammers (the human kind) from registering and posting their linkbait spam, I've been thinking of a way to defeat them.

Solution:
Most spammers move on if the site doesn't approve them immediately. So what I propose is a feature that holds all new accounts for manual approval, based on TIME criteria, for example: Midnight to 9am.

2 Comments

  1. Midnight to 9am..in what timezone? Assuming you're in one of the continental U.S. timezones (PST, CMT, CST, EST), your bots are posting around 8am - 5pm GMT, which is during business hours for pretty much any of the European users on this site.

    It's an interesting idea, but if you want Euro users on your site, then you're going to be doing a LOT of manual approving once you start getting real signups.

    fizz, 6th August 2011, 10:33:18 PM

  2. I have been searching for something similar that would disable registrations between certain times (midnight to 7 am local time). Since my site and board is mostly geared to local users, those overseas who are legitimate would just have to settle being inconvenienced.

    Dr._Zorro, 19th September 2011, 8:33:43 PM

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