Verification Emails

[WickedOreo]

I recently noticed that it is not required to verify your account to be able to post on Runouw. My suggestion is fairly simple: Initiate a verification process which may/may include: Clicking a verification link in said automated email, captchas, misleading text to differ people who don't read the rules/extra spambot protection, ect. If they fail to do this properly, they can be: reported automatically for failing spambot test, account locked/deleted by admin/Gmod staff, or other reasonable action if the account is suspected to be human/bot. If an account is made and no attempts to verify account have been made, then the account is subject to automatic deletion in x amount (a week?) of time.

At the least, a email verification process itself may deter at least a fair amount of spambots. Captchas don't cut it anymore, unfortunately.

This topic was made for user discussion and a means of possibly being implemented to help with the ever-growing population of spambots in Runouw.

Edit: Also, do think it would be highly ironic if a spambot posted in this? I'm highly tempted to provoke one of those bots to come and post, if it were possible.

[*Emelia K. Fletcher]

Isn't verification one of the most basic security measures anyway? What happened to it?

[Suyo]

This post by Suyo was thumbed up by:

playing23* (September 14th, 2013, 5:03 pm)

[Jellonator]

Lr said something about putting in a slider. Bot's can't slide sliders. usually.