vanillaforums/Garden — Issue #1268: Preventing spam users from showing up on the Applicants list
Author: elifarley
Created: 2011-12-13 16:49:07+00:00
State: open

I'd like to have an option to avoid the creation of spam users, that is, those users who simply want to post spam.

By checking the option "Require users to confirm their email addresses", I'm able to prevent them from posting, but how can I prevent them from showing up on the "Applicants" list? They are not real applicants, they're just spammers ;)

My suggestion is that users should only appear on the applicants list AFTER they have confirmed their email addresses.

There should also be a timeout (24 hours?) after which all information about these potential applicants should be automatically pruned from the database, to save space.