Membership approval required (too many spammers)

[admin]

Hello to all prospective new Light Art members.

Of late we have been targeted daily by dozens of spammers creating accounts, in order to make a nuisance of themselves.

So, we have had to introduce a system of registration approval from 12th July 2011.
New members are always welcome, and we will try and check for genuine new request a few time each day.
Hopefully this will remove the spamming problem - once and for all.

Regards,
Mark
Light Art Admin

[Ross and Cher]

Hey AD what about a monthly challenge to see who can swat the most spammersssssssssssss   

And jokes aside the awaiting approval list is gonna grow quickly - if they don't look genuine ...

[Analog6]

I'm currently deleting some slimebags buy drugs posts which he somehow (automatically I assume) managed to insert in EVERY SUBFORUM!  I hate them!

And he comes up as a banned user, but obviously the approval before posting did not work in this case.

[admin]

There has been 76 registrations in the last 24 hours - thankfully now all caught in the 'Awaiting approval' list.
Much easier to use the 'select all box' then wiz through and uncheck the ones that look vaguely genuine!

[Analog6]

Somehow another bloody spammer username bilialgok slipped through - how do they do that?  He posted a bloody online bingo message in every section!  All gone now.

Is there any way to bulk delete messages posted by one user?

[Ross and Cher]

from the ban page view most recent posts by the member - you still have to remove one by one, but they are all together in one spot 

[Analog6]

Does someone who puts a user name of "meatntitty" REALLY think we are going to APPROVE him??

[Tim N]

Someone got through the other day with a normal looking name and was online when I was and she had posted a picture showing her very large assets with a message suggesting there was more to see on her webpage ... needless to say that user has been banned and the post removed !