cheating on worldfitness.com

[mrsc]

it's not about the money, it's about deturing people who are only looking to spam

Who is making the money? It should go to charity

 

[mrsc]

very very true that sux for new members

I wouldn't care for paying BUT I would want to know how good the site is before I pay

 

[aevans410]

they took the charge away.

 

[malkore]

They need one of those registration systems where you have to type in the characters displayed in a graphic, where the graphic is so screwy looking that a computer OCR program couldn't read it and punch the numbers in. Lots of php based BB's have this already..I think this site just needs to upgrade their software.

 

[Obsidian]

That awful scrambled character deciphering method is also currenty in use I'm afraid.

 

[LiveFromNY]

yeah. ..........................................

 

[corple]

maybe, email verification can be used, and whoever advertises by spam, their email can be posted, and they will receive spam back?

 

[Obsidian]

This wouldn't stop them. I believe the e-mails they use are generic anyway and anyone can have as many unique e-mail adresses as they want. Perhaps an IP filter would be better. Anyone who is identified as a spammer could have his IP banned as well.

 

[aevans410]

Thats why the email verification by a moderator or administrator would help. The email IPs can be traced. If the IP on the email is a known spammer, flush the application.

Or solution 2 (this has already been mentioned, I just can't remember who, this also depends on the limitations of the bulletin board software) is limit posting and use a system to track time on the board.

I lurk on gamefaqs.com, this is the way they do it.

The first day you sign up, you can only post 1 new reply on a thread or 1 new topic. They use a numerical value that they call "karma". Every 24 hours that you have a post on the board, your karma increases by 1. After 24 hours, your allowed to post 5 messages. After 2 weeks or so, your allowed to post 10, after 30 days, your posting restrictions are lifted.

 

[NewGenSTi]

Why would someone pay $2 to post on this site if there are hundreds of other sites that you can post on for nothing.

Because they know that if they pay $2 to post on a site most likely everyone else did so its not just a bunch of punks who dont know crap its more like people who are serious and willing to throw an extra $2 towards a good clean forum rather than some of the scam supplements out on todays market duh

lol just my opinion no flame intended

 

[freddy1]

i think a subscription fee would bury this site.