The whole "Approve post" thing.

[Hiro]

I was just wondering, since many people are always asking why their posts need to be approved, wouldn't it be a good idea to put some sort of notification (if possible) in the registration process? Just to let them know.

Once again, I don't know if this is possible.

edit; had a quick idea, or a PM to their inbox as soon as they are active?

[Tintinnabulate]

They could just edit the message which says their message needs to be approved and add why it needs to be approved

[Hiro]

They could just edit the message which says their message needs to be approved and add why it needs to be approved

or that, I guess doing both wouldn't hurt, then if people ask, well if people ask why then God help them? :rolleyes:

[Mr.Sam]

They should have an automatic pm system explaining that the post approval is in place and information about vip vvip

[Tintinnabulate]

That could be added to the welcome PM which is already in place.

[Galaxay]

upon registering every member gets a welcome PM from "System" so could simply add to it about the whole approval process, and could also have a ntice for moderated members about it (i.e. unregistered members have the notice about how to registier at top of homepage)

[Hiro]

upon registering every member gets a welcome PM from "System" so could simply add to it about the whole approval process, and could also have a ntice for moderated members about it (i.e. unregistered members have the notice about how to registier at top of homepage)

I like that idea.

[Tintinnabulate]

On vBulletin, you can now add messages at the top of the page too (using their new feature, rather than editing the templates manually) So they could do that too.

e.g.
Find out why your post needs to be approved first. Click HERE for more information.

[Catzsy]

That could be added to the welcome PM which is already in place.

Very good suggestion. Would anybody be able to pm me a copy of the welcome message so I could look at it? Its a long time since I joined.

[GommeInc]

It'll be less work not to aprrove them. A spam bot will appear and post a few times, meaning less effort to get rid of them. Approving posts takes alot of work for hundreds of members, most of which aren't spam bots. Isn't there a way to have the verification image appear for posts? Spambots most of the time only recognise the registration page verification image, not usually the ones afterwards.