i have active mods on the forum but they only respond to the reported posts.
i manage the moderated posts and i only do that once every couple of hours.
from what i see the spam filters are working rather nicely blocking every piece of shit that is being thrown at the forum.
i cannot really find an option to hide them from the various views. too bad for that.
as for manually approving new members? if i was to signup on a forum where my account creation required approval from a moderator, i would not really visit that forum again.
i apply the rules on this forum that meets my own level of expectations as a fellow member.
of course it is annoying to see the thread titles of spammy threads. i can understand that part of the problem. but i do believe that it is better than opening up a thread and seeing pornographic gif files.
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i am not a member of techenclave.
i found it very annoying that i could not post on several popular boards just because the registration was invite only.
facebook and twitter are already killing traffic on the forum. people complain here that registration is tough and takes too much time. and you expect me to enable moderation of new accounts!
trust me, i am not doing a favor to people by letting them becoming a member of this forum. and i do not plan to make registration a more complicated process. in fact, i wait for the day vBulletin would allow me to allow registration using
google accounts, twitter accounts, and other popular ways in addition to facebook (which i think is a pretty crappy choice).