How many posts until I'm no longer being screened?

[Bloop]

100 is insane LOL took me about three weeks or so to reach 100 posts on here?

though its already sorted its 5 posts lala

[Inseriousity.]

Personally think this should be replaced with something better for new users. captcha? It caused a faff on with my shipwrecked event because some of the users were new and couldn't post. I imagine some people might not want to stick around if they don't understand why their posts/threads aren't showing up.

Welcome to the forum btw habbox.com/comps to get your post count up and win credits woooo

[xxMATTGxx]

Personally think this should be replaced with something better for new users. captcha? It caused a faff on with my shipwrecked event because some of the users were new and couldn't post. I imagine some people might not want to stick around if they don't understand why their posts/threads aren't showing up.

Welcome to the forum btw habbox.com/comps to get your post count up and win credits woooo

That is actually possible - Just tested it now. Will speak to the others and turn it on globally later on today.

[scottish]

Isn't captcha already used upon registration? It's highly ineffective for the most part as bots get smarter and smarter and becomes useless very quick (we used to have tons of spam bots with captcha).

It should be set to 1, once that first post has been approved every post after that gets approved (it's unlikely a spam bot is going to post non-nonsense for their first post then spam after that). So for example if I register and post 500 threads, they'd all be unapproved because I had 0 approved posts. If I post one thread, get approved, then post 499 threads all will be posted as I have that 1 approved post.

[Phil]

I'm pretty sure it used to be 1 post, not sure why it went up to five. I would be happy with a captcha and one post approval.

[scottish]

Isn't captcha enabled at registration, and has been since 2004? lol

[Chippiewill]

Yeah, the current captcha is actually pretty good. Could be wrong but I don't think I've seen a proper spam post in the mod bin for a while.

[Chris]

We seem to have periods where spambots are an issue and others where they completely vanish. Might be worth altering how many posts need to be approved though.

[Matt]

Alternatively, in the PM they automatically get sent when they sign up, just include a section there stating that their first 5 posts will be moderated, it may take time to approve them etc and then they will understand why their posts aren't showing to begin with. I think 5 isn't too bad, maybe lowering it to 3 or something would be good.

[Kyle]

I propose a single compulsory thread in the welcome forum before a user is able to post elsewhere. Literally has no drawbacks, get it implemented lads.


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