On your forum, do you allow immediate signups or do people need to check an email? Does anyone manually approve accounts? Has anything happened causing you to be more strict?
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I don't think it's really that important. Asking new users to spell words backward pretty much keeps out spambots. If there are spammers after that - they can just be dealt with via specialized software and other ways.Having verified mail IDs would greatly reduce spam content on your forum. People would start to feel more responsible and would post sensibly if their post from a verified account. This would improve the quality of your forum.
Approving E-mail address should be mandatory because many people will use this in a wrong way, and could create accounts with someone else's address.On your forum, do you allow immediate signups or do people need to check an email? Does anyone manually approve accounts? Has anything happened causing you to be more strict?
It is not hard to get gmail generator mail for one time signup because if you signup sometimes with your real email you will get rude with newsletter staff so just keep it only if there is for example signup on a payment processor or portefolio but use for spam purpose is something so bad.On my forums, the sign up will be complete only when the user clicks on the confirmation link received on their email. I once had enabled auto approval and I saw over 1000 registrations in a single day an all of these accounts were spam accounts