Spammers?

[anna]

I'm the son of Anna. She isn't posting this herself.

I noticed you guys are having problems with advertisers spamming up the forum.
I know that php forums have an option where new members have to authenticate their e-mail adresses by activating their acounts trough a link in an e-mail.
Wouldn't this keep the spammers out?

[kri]

We tried this before, and there were some problems with it, so we turned off that option. I think the issue was that we didn't know where the e-mail was sent for people with problems with the authentication service. I think the issue can arise with people who have screen readers.

As an alternative, the admins basically spot spam and delete it. We also delete usernames that have questionable profiles.

[anna]

Thank you for the quick reply.
I am a member of several online communities that do use it to keep out spammers and wondered why the e-mail authentication wasn't used on these forums.

[kri]

Thank you for the quick reply.
I am a member of several online communities that do use it to keep out spammers and wondered why the e-mail authentication wasn't used on these forums.

Sorry I couldn't explain it better, but I wasn't the one who set it up and took it down.

[kayray]

The image authentication system won't work for visually-impaired people, and obviously we try to keep librivox as accesible as possible. I'll pester Chris Goringe to help me figure something out :) We're all sick to death of deleting spammers.