Admin - We want to help

[wheniam6]

Well, I for one am going to be much more strict with my team's TM's (and certain Mods) and since admin gave the GM's now full authority over who becomes TM's and mods, it's going to be implemented immedaitely. I have 2 TM's at the moment out of 8 (last time I checked) who's actually worthy of becoming full mods, while I'm unsure about the rest... And then I have inactive mods too...

Well, at least we can now decide on who's TM's and who becomes mods! That would help a lot to make this forum a much better place for all. {thumb2}

I can't because she's not the one making new members TMs immediately.

That's strange, BABii_ANG3L - as far as I know all the GM's can now fully control their teams - with just one click, you can make a member a TM on your team or promote them to a full mod, or even put someone on your team who's already a mod or TM.

Thanks,
zanne

I Think she means that ADMIN keeps on promoting people to TM when really, they should be a regular member.

[mharm2k6]

Also to cut down on the number of spammer registrations, couldn't you just implement an email confirmation as mentioned above, or even a simple CAPTCHA wouldn't be hard to implement.
-M

2. The spammers won't be able to create new accounts anymore. The registration page has just been updated.

Fanmail

Capcha and email registration are useless with these new bots :neutral:

If the right CAPTCHA system is used- it's extremely difficult to bypass. Usually it would require the input from a human- as 99% of bots have no way of figuring out the text without either 1. a ginormous database of captchas and a cross referencing program, or 2. something like a pixel analyzer... and I am guessing these bots aren't nearly that high-tech. Even if there was another way around the Captcha, it should still help.
As for the email confirmation- that's when an email is verified by sending a link that a person must click- to finish registration. While a program could be scripted to do this, it would require a valid email. Not to mention the fact that you can have a registration authorization- like on Crownvic.net [they have over 14,000 members as well]. It requires the email verification along with a human to review the registration details. While this could be time intensive- it wouldn't be difficult, especially if there were more admins (I know that last statement will be controversial). Part of the reason there are so many spammers is because it's easy. That's why a lot of times car thieves will keep checking cars until one is unlocked- because it takes less effort than breaking in. Basically there are a number of ways the spammers/bots could be cut down.
-Matt

**that's just my two sense, take it as you will

[BABii_ANG3L]

Well, I for one am going to be much more strict with my team's TM's (and certain Mods) and since admin gave the GM's now full authority over who becomes TM's and mods, it's going to be implemented immedaitely. I have 2 TM's at the moment out of 8 (last time I checked) who's actually worthy of becoming full mods, while I'm unsure about the rest... And then I have inactive mods too...

Well, at least we can now decide on who's TM's and who becomes mods! That would help a lot to make this forum a much better place for all. {thumb2}

I can't because she's not the one making new members TMs immediately.

That's strange, BABii_ANG3L - as far as I know all the GM's can now fully control their teams - with just one click, you can make a member a TM on your team or promote them to a full mod, or even put someone on your team who's already a mod or TM.

Thanks,
zanne

I Think she means that ADMIN keeps on promoting people to TM when really, they should be a regular member.

haha stop reading my mind!

[wheniam6]

haha....I just guessed cuz i know admin does most of the TM promoting but mods do the mod promoting.

[jdp3577]

3. The server has just been upgraded. The message board should be faster now

it still seems to be down daily, I tried to get on for over an hour today without any luck