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Account Activations

2004-10-21, 8:26 AM #1

Charoziak

Burnt to a crisp

Posts: 376

What is the benefit to having a user activate their account?

I'm currently in a revival process with an admin of another board that had open registration. Massassi is successful and uses user activation.

ANyway, just seeing what the board thinks.

Frightening the very small and very old since 1952.

2004-10-21, 8:32 AM #2

DSettahr

to wound the autumnal city.

Posts: 5,313

Requiring the user to wait for an email, and then click on the link within that email to activate their accounts, verifies that they have registered using an active and unique email account.

2004-10-21, 8:48 AM #3

Charoziak

Burnt to a crisp

Posts: 376

Would it be logical to assume that members that just want to drive by post (a problem we have a lot - as a creative writing site, we get a lot of folks who through up a work they want critiqued, and then never show up after it's done) - would be less inclined to post if they had to get an e-mail and verify first?

Frightening the very small and very old since 1952.

2004-10-21, 8:56 AM #4

Wolfy

I TYPE LOUD

Posts: 10,623

Yes.

the idiot is the person who follows the idiot and your not following me your insulting me your following the path of a idiot so that makes you the idiot - LC Tusken

2004-10-21, 10:16 AM #5

Brian

Administrator

Posts: 7,886

Massassi's original forums didn't require registration, they were completely anonymous. The second set was the UBB and if I recall correctly we allowed anonymous posts. To build your community, registration can really hurt. However, once you get too big, not requiring registration can really hurt. Even after that, we didn't use activation for quite a while, even when we were using registration. Once the community gets to be a certain size you start getting trolls who like to register a thousand accounts, and when that time hits, you just have to turn on activation.