Hey, i wanted to intorduce a new step to fight spam on my 'free forum hoster'. 9www.easyforumz.com) It runs phpBB2 it would work like this: When someone goes to register at a hosted forum, like http://easyforumz.com/The_Demo/profile.php?mode=register&sid=f08eec3c9f7347a65e6c564177ac2330 then when they have filled in the details, they would have to do another thing. If email validation is on: they would need to validate their email, but when they do so they dont get redirected to http://easyforumz.com/The_Demo/.....php where it says "Thanks for validating your email, you may log in" it would redirect to www.easyforumz.com/validate/html (doesnt exsist yet) where they would have to input their username they reigstered as and then they get rediredtced to the forum if it's correct. Any ideas on how much a small mod like this owuld cost? Thanks.
Adding CAPTCHA verification would be a simpler way to fight spam . Doesnt phpBB support it in its registration form?
This way, i get more people viewing my main site = more sign ups. Yes it does, but it doesnt do a thing tbh.
Well you can make it easier for the users. Make so that they have to answer a question shown in the image ( something simple like what is 1+1 or maybe what comes after 10 ) instead of having them identify squiggly numbers . It eliminates an extra step in the registration process. If you put the verification in the later stage, all those spam signups wil clutter your db . Of course, I know they can be easily cleaned up. But if you put the verification in the first stage, you dont need to put anything in the DB in the first place if its spam .