Administrator Approval Required For New Trial Club Members

[Captain Colonial]

Due to two recent severe spam attacks, new Trial Club Members must be approved by a club Administrator before their forum accounts will be permitted to go live.

 

As the Administrators are all unpaid volunteers who don’t live backstage, this approval may take 48 hours to process.  We hope you will understand the club’s desire to prevent the forums being filled with spam posts, which have no useful purpose to the club or it’s members.

[Peter Bourn]

Oh ok, maybe that's why I can't see my post this morning or respond to anyone because I only joined up last night and now everything is on hold pending approval?

[Captain Colonial]

3 minutes ago, Peter Bourn said:

Oh ok, maybe that's why I can't see my post this morning or respond to anyone because I only joined up last night and now everything is on hold pending approval?

I replied to your Support Request.  Please log off and log back in again to see if that fixed it.

 

 

[Robin Parker (Red Spider) - Yorkshire AO]

I've just searched for a new local member who I believe signed up yesterday, and noticed all the suspect user names. Has there been a spam attack?

[Captain Colonial]

Oh boy, has there!  200 spam accounts and rising, and over 700 spam posts!

[Peter Bourn]

Hello captain, I signed out and back in again as you suggested - It didn't fix it - I posted in the start line last night introducing muself as a new member with a photo, but this has disappeared

[Captain Colonial]

Thanks for clarifying that Peter, that thread is back now.  I’ve added an extra day on to your membership period to compensate you for your troubles. 👍

[Peter Bourn]

All sorted now- thanks cap'n

[Stuart]

Absolute PITA everywhere so a good move IMO. I saw a long spam post briefly this morning. Just out of interest, are the spammers actually paying for trial membership so they can spam us? 

[marcusb]

10 minutes ago, Stuart said:

are the spammers actually paying for trial membership so they can spam us? 

no!

[Stuart]

@marcusb Don't get it then. If they aren't paying to be trial club members then how does manual approval of trial club members keep them out? But never mind not important 

[Captain Colonial]

31 minutes ago, Stuart said:

@marcusb Don't get it then. If they aren't paying to be trial club members then how does manual approval of trial club members keep them out? But never mind not important 

Trial Members get 60 days or 50 posts, whichever comes first, to decide cost-free if the club is for them.

 

Without giving away secrets, if an Admin has to approve a new Trial Member’s account before they can post, they can see if their details are either obviously kosher or obviously dodgy.  It only takes about 10 seconds to sniff out a wrong ‘un and ban them permanently before they go on a spam spree.

 

 

[Stuart]

Ah. I thought trial members had to pay from Day one. Sorry to be a numpty

[Captain Colonial]

15 minutes ago, Stuart said:

Ah. I thought trial members had to pay from Day one. Sorry to be a numpty

As well you should be - it’s MY job to be the numpty around here!