Bill Posters will be Persecuted

[Cympil]

We are currently carrying out yet another cull of lurkers. A slight variation from previous culls is that non-contributing members who have taken the trouble to put something about themselves in their profile - even in the odd case a picture - have not been removed - yet!

Even if you have nothing to say it's important that you post a little hello in the Introduce Yourself Forum to let the moderators know that you have more in mind than selling generic Viagra.

Are you saying that if new members don`t post they`ll be banned? A lot of folk join just so they can read the forums and since some parts of the forums are members only they don`t have a lot of choice but to join..but it doesn`t mean they`re spammers?

You can spot the spammers a mile off by their ip`s, emails and names, so why don`t you just block them straight away then leave the legit new members to speak when they are ready? I know one or two members on here that often read the forum but hardly ever post simply because they don`t feel confident enough..

[Mr Darn]

I know one or two members on here that often read the forum but hardly ever post simply because they don`t feel confident enough..

Hear Hear!

Whats the harm in some members just having a read of whats going on to keep up? If they aind doing any harm....

can you imagine if sites like Wiki said you had to contribute to use the service?

Plus...some peoples opinions are best kept to themselves! and more power to them for keeping quiet

[Guest MONGO]

block the lot kick them oot

[Cympil]

Hardly persecution 3g but funny anyway

[threegee]

I'd like to join your club - but BTW I'm not prepared to fill in the simple entry form.

I won't say a simple hello to anyone at all and will hide in the corner for months and make notes about what I see and hear.

I may be a terrorist, or I may not be - I'm not saying, you'll just have to spend a lot of your time watching me and take your best guess.

Err... sorry, not playing that game!

There's quite a lot of public content here now. The intention of most posters is to exchange views and information with like-minded people with approx similar interests, and they RIGHTLY assume they'll be protected from snake-oil-merchants and other low-life! Asking them to make this a bit easier is no big deal in my book.

[Mr Darn]

But, on the huge grand scale of things, if my intention was as you say, and the only stumbling block was a 'hello', then i'd say hello and do it anyways!

just like you have to become a member to view the forum, this one extra thing isn't gonna stop anyone who's set to do what you think they will...

however, we have most areas covered by moderators now, so a 5 post 'moderator approval' bond might not be a bad plan... and may be a better way to check out the person and stop the viagra sales before they hit the board (with us imposing permanant mod approval on the account at the first viagra related offence) . You can do that with this forum software right?

I think this could be a good debate!

what exactly do you think these 'non posters' are intending to do? and how does saying hello change that fact?

I'm not trying to be awkward, just wanna see it from your point of view...

[threegee]

The bot writers recently found a bug in the captchas code. Actually I think "those who can profit from a fix" may have TOLD them about it! Easily fixed, but dozens of bot registrations on every visit are annoying and a lot of work to sort out. Bots don't care about Bedders! Neither do human spammers, or people tricked by bots to do the validation for them.

Hello I'm from BowWow Grange is beyond spammers. Spammers don't like work. The VERY odd stupid kid isn't any problem.

And no. If you read the announcement again you'll see that non-posters who have put something half recognisable in their profile are still with us. Some (if not all ) sound like really nice people and I'm sure that they'll get around to entering into the swing of things sooner or later.