vanillaforums/Garden — Issue #1269: Some spam users are able to bypass the approval phase
Author: elifarley
Created: 2011-12-13 16:56:27+00:00
State: open

Some spam users are able to bypass the approval phase (they never show up on the applicants list) and start posting.

Preventing them from posting is easy (just check "Require users to confirm their email addresses"), but I don't want to have an ever-increasing number of users who can never post.

I don't know what they are doing in order to bypass my approval - any idea?

My forum uses Vanilla 2.0.18.1 with this registration method: "Approval	- New users are reviewed and approved by an administrator (that's you!)."