Help! I can’t activate my forum account!
by Dan Repperger
Like most forums, we’ve struggled endlessly with spammers. After trying all of the usual tricks, we managed to stop the SpamBots, but we couldn’t stop human spammers from coming on the forum and manually posting a shocking volume of crap. Our solution was to start requiring email validation for each account. Since that’s more work than a human spammer is willing to do, the forum spam has almost completely stopped.
However, there’s been a negative side effect: many legitimate users aren’t getting their confirmation emails.
If you’ve signed up for our forums and have not received your confirmation email, please use the contact form on this site. Send an email to the General Mailbox with your forum user name, and we’ll get you activated immediately.
Thanks!
Well Dan that would be great, but you how about when it is left in General Mail for over a month and does not get replied to?
Great question, Max, with a very simple answer. I passed control of the General Mailbox over to Chad who will actually read and respond to it. So your message will not just sit there and rot.