New member, zero posting, why?

[wuxmedia]

Sure no probs.
Found them, Do we want a template for all of them, user reminders mostly?
Or just wing it ?

[machinebacon]

Good question. The easiest would be to change the "Welcome" text after registration. Do as you think is best. We didn't have anything like this before, so it cannot be worse :D

[wuxmedia]

tested - registered got this:

*** PLEASE NOTE ***

If you've gone to the trouble of registering, then please consider a short
intro in the /dev/null section of the forum!
This will ensure, not only that you are welcomed into the gang, but also
that your account won't be removed due to inactivity.
You will receive a notification via email if you don't use the forums much,
so don't freak out or anything :)

Thank you for registering.

[rhowaldt]

^ seems good to me!

[machinebacon]

Thanks Wux, that's exactly how it should be :)

[wuxmedia]

Cool, shall we close this ticket then :)

[machinebacon]

Tick the closet :D

[wuxmedia]

*** Automated Reply ****
Ticket #13142 Clsoded 2015-02-20

how did we do??

Pleese will ya rate teh tecknishun dealing with yo' request?

[ ] Bad, just bad.
[ ] Alright, I guess.
[ ] Bad, not bad meaning bad, but bad meaning good.
[ ] Don't care.
[ ] I have a cloning facility, I'd love to clone this individual, for the good of humankind.

thanks for your inputs.
Kindest wishes,
Bubbles
tier one support monkey

[ivanovnegro]

Some forums have an automatic policy that if you don't post at least once in a month (or so) after registering, your account is deactivated, and new members get a PM informing them of this. Maybe we could set up something similar?

I would like to see this.

I don't personally have a problem with people lurking here (at least after their first post). I am a member of the Arch forum, and I regularly log in there to read and learn, but I almost never post. I would not like to have my account deactivated after a few months of inactivity. But this is different from people who register here and never post at all.

I am also lurking very rarely on the Arch forum but you can do that from Google, too, or without an account.
There are just so many bots, if they register and never post I would say, adiós. At least one post after registering.

Now I saw Bacon beat us to it with his suggestion, great. The matter was handled swiftly.

[wuxmedia]

there is a 'expect a verification reply email' from the user, so their email has to be valid too.
Ie activate after clicking reply or a link, I guess thats not all that useful.
How about some suggestions for killer security questions?

[machinebacon]

Well we have the anti-spambot question, so these users who have registered ACTUALLY HAD TO TYPE something. No idea why these cowards guys don't take their 30 seconds to post 'Hi'.

[wuxmedia]

According to the phpbb forum and the header of the anti-spam question mod, bots can now google the answer.
Which is why I was thinking of a modification of the questions, like reverse an answer. 50% don't seem to be googleable ie are secure. so...

[GekkoP]

I missed this, but good to know we are taking care of shy bots.

[vic]

Yes, let us boycott the bots.

[machinebacon]

According to the phpbb forum and the header of the anti-spam question mod, bots can now google the answer.
Which is why I was thinking of a modification of the questions, like reverse an answer. 50% don't seem to be googleable ie are secure. so...

They are quite good questions (i.e. which desktop environment uses Openbox as default window manager), and if a bot can answer correctly: hats off, I remove the fucker manually :D

[wuxmedia]

yeah true - well, prune 'em up now and again.

[machinebacon]

i make this sticky for a while :)

[stark]

Beware, there are silent watchers in the irc o_o

[vic]

With the last 50 registered users we have 19 posters, some quite active. :) On the previous 50 there are 43 with zero posts!!! So we are doing a little bit better. :) But there is one of them that I really would like to have an intro from. #390, that is registeered with the name "vic2". Who are you? I am intrigued.

[machinebacon]

^ these zero-posters will be purged anyway in July, so nothing to worry about :) I'll answer your question in a PM :)