www.symbiostock.org/community/ <--- registrations open again

I had to mod it a bit to stop spammers

a bit off topic but I am getting quite a few spam registrations on my site these days..

I just don't get it.. Why would anyone want to create a spam account on my site? since the comments are disabled and the only thing a registered user can do is "buy" images?..

Seriously, why register just for the sake of registering?  Am I missing something?

... probably because the spam bots don't know that comments are disable.  They just go through their auto spam process.
1. find a wordpress site
2. sign up
3 post a comment automatically and hope it shows up

I'm all for off-topic! I'm using the last year's experience and building to finally perfect things --

Related to this post:
http://www.microstockgroup.com/symbiostock-general/symbiostock-centralization-call-to-developers-companies/msg358274/?topicseen#new

And this post:
http://www.symbiostock.org/community/viewtopic.php?pid=9217#p9217

The first response is trepidation! I know the Symbio-crowd well.

I will say this much -- We're not changing much - simply dividing things into modules. Its being simplified and heavily documented. ALL documentation will be accessible right within the admin.

Things will be cleaner and ready for a bigger market, if all goes well. It will be installable with a "converter" plugin which brings you from the old site to the new.

The end result is that Symbiostock will be able to put its little symbiotic roots into any aspect of this business.

I rather hope I can avoid the forums and too much magic-geanie co-dependence in this phase of development so I can focus on a clear and perfected product.

Hi Leo,

 What happens with those that where registered previously and where banned because they hadn't place a single post on the forum? Are you going to activate their account again? Right now I'm still banned because of that drastic reason and I even can't logout, so I'm trapped!

Regards

Sorry about that - I probably banned you by mistake when I looked at a page of junky names and didn't notice a real one in the middle. Let me know your user name and I can un-ban you

I've installed 3 made for that forum...

I'm working on the issue now.

For instance, when I set up the wiki, it was discovered by spammers within 1 hour, and immediately I had all sorts of adds popping up on it. So I solved it by having it share accounts with the forum database. Spammers of course are not programmed for that unique scenerio. So perfect silence.

I think I'm going to set up the community to somehow generate accounts based on whether or not you have a symbiostock site...will get back to you.

Quote from: Jo Ann Snover on December 25, 2013, 13:43

Sorry about that - I probably banned you by mistake when I looked at a page of junky names and didn't notice a real one in the middle. Let me know your user name and I can un-ban you

Thank you Jo. My username is peresanz. I'm having some time now for Christmas holidays that I will use to work on my symbio site so expect me posting on the symbiostock forum this time :-)

The interface doesn't - apparently - let me un-ban someone, but I can set a ban expire date. I tried yesterday, but it said it had to be one day in the future. I tried today as well (it's the future somewhere!) but no go, so your ban expires tomorrow, Dec 26th.

Very sorry for the inconvenience.

Quote from: peresanz on December 25, 2013, 14:20

Quote from: Jo Ann Snover on December 25, 2013, 13:43

Sorry about that - I probably banned you by mistake when I looked at a page of junky names and didn't notice a real one in the middle. Let me know your user name and I can un-ban you

Thank you Jo. My username is peresanz. I'm having some time now for Christmas holidays that I will use to work on my symbio site so expect me posting on the symbiostock forum this time :-)

The interface doesn't - apparently - let me un-ban someone, but I can set a ban expire date. I tried yesterday, but it said it had to be one day in the future. I tried today as well (it's the future somewhere!) but no go, so your ban expires tomorrow, Dec 26th.

Very sorry for the inconvenience.

That's fine. Thank you for un-banning me.

...

So buyers wont be able to come on to the forum, and the image request forum is also obsolete now?

Quote from: Leo on December 25, 2013, 18:03

Everyone is unbanned now

Thank you. It works :-)

Banned again!! (??)
I logged into the forum this morning without problems and now I got the same message about being banned. it says: Last visit: Today 12:56:34 (this is UT+0 time) You are banned from this forum. Please direct any inquiries to the forum administrator at [email protected].

I understand spammers are a big issue so no complaints here. As soon as I'm in again I will post a message just to leave the zero posts group :-)

Registrations are OPEN again! brace yourselves!

The community plugin, I've decided, will be integrated into Symbiostock 3 --- I'm not going to release it now.