OK, maybe "the bane of my existence" is a bit strong. Perhaps I should say, "something I find greatly annoying"...all of the spam registrations I receive each day.
Registration for TVWBB is a two-part process. Part 1 is you filling-out the registration form and then receiving the email confirmation where you click the link to prove it's really your email address. Part 2 is me going into an admin control panel and approving or declining each registration. I'm looking at usernames and trying to determine which ones are real people and which ones are not. The ones that are bogus are trying to register for the purpose of spamming us with advertisements in posts.
You'd be surprised how many bogus registrations I have to sort through. Like 60-70 each day. Really. There must be a cottage industry in Vietnam, Belarus, China, and other countries where people just pump-out spam registrations to vBulletin sites like TVWBB. It's interesting only in the sense that I never experienced this when we were on the old Social Strata platform prior to July 2012. I guess that was one of the few advantages of Social Strata.
Anyway, why do I share this with you? If you made it through the registration process OK, you don't have any reason to care. But if you're a guest reading this, and you decide to register, you can do me and yourself a HUGE favor...register using a readable version of your real name, as requested on the registration form in red text. Because if you register with a username like these...
So help me help you by registering with a username that looks and reads like a real human name. ThankQ!
Registration for TVWBB is a two-part process. Part 1 is you filling-out the registration form and then receiving the email confirmation where you click the link to prove it's really your email address. Part 2 is me going into an admin control panel and approving or declining each registration. I'm looking at usernames and trying to determine which ones are real people and which ones are not. The ones that are bogus are trying to register for the purpose of spamming us with advertisements in posts.
You'd be surprised how many bogus registrations I have to sort through. Like 60-70 each day. Really. There must be a cottage industry in Vietnam, Belarus, China, and other countries where people just pump-out spam registrations to vBulletin sites like TVWBB. It's interesting only in the sense that I never experienced this when we were on the old Social Strata platform prior to July 2012. I guess that was one of the few advantages of Social Strata.
Anyway, why do I share this with you? If you made it through the registration process OK, you don't have any reason to care. But if you're a guest reading this, and you decide to register, you can do me and yourself a HUGE favor...register using a readable version of your real name, as requested on the registration form in red text. Because if you register with a username like these...
- mahabq95
- oenhpx87
- vanessaaa
- Shira9419
- Whyilytt34
- z76aoe892
So help me help you by registering with a username that looks and reads like a real human name. ThankQ!
