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Topic: Membership Changes to Forum |
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Dick
Moderator
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Posted on: Sep 2, 2018 - 9:22pm
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Membership changes to forum - All new members will have to contact the Moderator ( ME ) for membership creation and approval. I understand this might be undesirable and immediate access to posting will not be available. Hopefully it won’t take me too long to set up maybe with-in a day. This new procedure will require that when I receive a request, to figure out if the request is legitimate or just another SPAMMER trying to get in.
As most of you know, trying to keep up with the threats have become extremely time consuming and at times seems to be a never-ending task. With tighter membership controls it might be easier to control.
Each of the last three days since the “Clean-out” the forum has brought just under 200 new members daily, well, not really anyone interest in PT’s just SPAMMERS from “Red” China and Russia. While it usually is the “Red” Chinese whom dominate the spammer core the last few days have been all Russian - 523 sign-ups.
One sad note in general, this forum for years and years use to bring in around 400 visitors (legitimate viewers) to the site daily. However, starting late last year the numbers have been falling and falling ever so much. In the last 5-months visitors have dwindled to only 30+ per day. Even though in the past when there has been 400- visitors per day, most individuals would only read and never post. I’m not sure what happened to all of them, maybe they simply got burned-out on PT’s or went elsewhere to other message boards, websites, blogs and Facebook.
Hope these new procedures won’t be too annoying!
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