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That's mostly advanced slow-posters who don't do much chatter, Ellri. The GM of my main game here has less than 400 posts after being here since NewGuild was created, and our RP has several with even less. Mind, he's also the one who invited me here on OldGuild... And I know quite a few people who'll just gather up their friends, join a site, and play.
Point being, do not force people to do things they don't want to for arbitrary reasons. Not everyone's behaviour is similar to your own. Many people avoid spam like plague. Some don't chat. Some just tag along with friends. Some will sooner not join than post an intro thread.
Point being, do not force people to do things they don't want to for arbitrary reasons. Not everyone's behaviour is similar to your own. Many people avoid spam like plague. Some don't chat. Some just tag along with friends. Some will sooner not join than post an intro thread.
If we had, say, five more mods (so at least one will probably be on at all times to nuke any bot that sneaks through, as opposed for them posting freely for four hours before a single mod shows up as happened during my morning-periods this time around) and a measure that sort of works, then it's good enough. We don't need a "No bot will ever come through again, EVER" measure at the cost of users. We need enough for them to stay at easily manageable levels.
If you need to have been registered for 1 months and have at least 200 posts to approve a user, chances are pretty high you're not a spambot. We thought of suggesting higher numbers, but not everyone posts a lot even while being active.Some members don't even pull off 200 posts in a year of running an active RP, for starters...
In any case, we do not want a non-automated or needlessly restrictive/limiting approval process. "Just tell about yourself" is about as far from ideal as it gets. It cannot be automated, it's potentially time-consuming, and will put pressure on those seeking to join.
So, having registration disable and open registration dates is going to suddenly turn the RPGuild into a place for elitists to hang and chill... And I don't really see it as a dramatic measure, many other roleplaying sites have this system in place and none of them have turned into elitist hubs.Which "many"? Of the handful I'm semi-regular visitor of, and the dozen more I've at least looked at, only one employs such tactic (and that one started around a couple of months ago, and by my observations, is actually suffering for it).
I only know of one non-closed-circle (so publicly available) RP site and one pet site that have employed such tactics to begin with - the first specifically because they're trying to keep the amount of users low (and I can see it's causing tangible problems like cliqueing and people's inability to find interest for more niche ideas), the second because their servers did not tolerate the amount of concurrent users.
Advanced seems to have a number of pages composed of only bot-posts left, composed by only the following bots:
woonbae
laraphot112
vqqvhydkg
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Invites seem to be a good short-term idea (once-valid codes generated from server timestamp seed that users can send out?).
woonbae
laraphot112
vqqvhydkg
qkzkfk3
qkzkfk2
Invites seem to be a good short-term idea (once-valid codes generated from server timestamp seed that users can send out?).
I think that we should leave registrations disable and do what other roleplaying sites are doing. Install an invite system and open registrations to the general public once a month or every two-three months.Far too drastic. We're not intending to keep our site artificially small like some out there.
Whatever autoban you apply, it's guaranteed that at least one user will have it blow up in their face. (It's not like no one in their right mind would create a RP in the first 24 hours after joining an RP site, right?)
EDIT: Oh dear, that capcha... It's a blurry image less than two centimeters across, how on earth am I to tell whether it's a pool or a blue tennis court? (It was, in fact, not a body of water.)
EDIT: Oh dear, that capcha... It's a blurry image less than two centimeters across, how on earth am I to tell whether it's a pool or a blue tennis court? (It was, in fact, not a body of water.)
I was more speaking of reserving the first X posts in your own OoC. Half a dozen posts in about ten seconds is what realistically happens.
Trying to reserve the first X posts in OoC or chat-style free roleplay can do it, for instance.
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